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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...
...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...
...said, "The problem is that you have a disease, but the disease is abnormal integrity, loyalty to a view of the world that the schizophrenic is willing to stake his life on." Szasz saw schizophrenia as a "legal-cultural fiction." Said he: "It's useful to Mr. and Mrs. Hinckley to think of their son as schizophrenic when he's really just...
Nobody knew where or when Wiley would surface, and many Hinckley folk now sense he is beyond their guesswork. Said Mary Placke, who saw him daily when he picked up Kent regulars and a newspaper at the Open Pantry Food Mart: "I thought we knew Mel. Guess we didn't." Detective Bigam feels sure of one thing: "He knew I'd be working on the case. He's got to be gloating...