Word: hinckleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...streets of Washington, "Hinckley" is slang for PCP: the drug is so mind bending that the user can end up in St. Elizabeths, the local psychiatric hospital where John Hinckley Jr. was sent after shooting Ronald Reagan in 1981. The hospital has tried to treat its notorious inmate like any other patient. But the futility of that became apparent when St. Elizabeths, maintaining that Hinckley's condition has improved, recommended that a judge allow him to leave for a one-day unescorted visit with his parents over Easter...
...Because Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity, he has a right to go free as soon as his doctors and the court agree that he no longer poses a danger. But the Government, which would like him to stay locked up, last week went to court to block the Easter excursion. Each new privilege, it fears, is a step leading inexorably to Hinckley's eventual release. "He shot four individuals, and to us he is still a threat," says Secret Service Spokesman Richard Adams...
According to the hospital, Hinckley has shown significant progress since he was diagnosed as suffering from a "narcissistic personality disorder." Though he still resides in a maximum-security ward, he has gone without antipsychotic medication since October. "His psychiatrists feel he is no longer a danger to himself or others," argues Dr. Harold Thomas, a hospital spokesman. "These visits can help Mr. Hinckley's development...
...without political acumen, and he thought he had President Reagan's support for his new campaign. Not only has Reagan expressed sympathy for families with crushing medical burdens, he has also seen some of the consequences. Press Secretary James Brady, shot down by would-be Presidential Assassin John Hinckley, still needs considerable medical care, and his wife calls the costs for such care a "national problem crying for a solution." In the State of the Union message last February, the President formally asked Bowen "to address the problems of affordable insurance for those whose life savings would otherwise be threatened...
...consider a bill to loosen federal gun controls. Later, after checking their own side arms, the police filled two sections of the spectators' gallery to watch the debate. Joining them was Sarah Brady, wife of White House Press Secretary James Brady, who was shot and partly paralyzed during John Hinckley's 1981 attack on President Reagan...