Word: ill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fundamental than even Gorbachev suspected four years ago. "Frankly speaking, comrades, we have underestimated the extent and gravity of the deformations," he told a Party Conference last year. Nikolai Shmelev, one of the country's radical economic gadflies, has put it more vividly: "We are now like a seriously ill man who, after a long time in bed, takes his first step with the greatest degree of difficulty and finds to his horror that he has almost forgotten how to walk...
...Health, he notes, the guards are still military personnel and the doctors commissioned officers. Says Podrabinek: "The only thing that has changed is the label." He claims that new language in the regulations has actually given the government even greater latitude to misuse psychiatry. Under the old rules, "mentally ill" people could be forcibly hospitalized if they were judged to pose a physical threat to themselves or society. That remains unchanged, according to Podrabinek, but now people can also be put away if they threaten "the rules of the socialist community...
...Harvard women's fencing team continued its ascent into the national fencing spotlight with a seventh-place finish in the NCAA Championships in Evanston, Ill...
...voice your opinion on a student center, speak to dean of Students Archie C. Epps, Ill. Or call Jeff Camp, co-president of Students Concerned for a Student Center, or Van Troung, moderator of the Harvard Union of Student Officers...
...championship game was the fifth to go into overtime and the first since Loyola, Ill., beat Cincinnati...