Word: illing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After eleven weeks of testimony from 28 witnesses, the congressional committees probing the Iran-contra affair finally heard from the investigator who brought the scandal to light and the official who presided over the White House staff while the ill-conceived policy was unfolding. Neither Attorney General Edwin Meese nor former Chief of Staff Don Regan did much to shake the devastating portrait that has emerged from the hearings of a secret foreign- policy apparatus run amuck and key officials more concerned with pulling together a convincing alibi than getting to the bottom of the tangled tale...
...Shultz's main adversaries in what he called a "battle royal" were the late Director of Central Intelligence William Casey and former National Security Adviser John Poindexter. They had helped spawn the ill-fated bargaining with Iran, and when it became public, Shultz charged, they continued to mislead Reagan and tried to use the Great Communicator's skills to "bail them out" of their folly...
...page report reveals that mentally ill people who drink or use illegal drugs commit suicide at least twice as often as abstinent schizophrenics or manic depressives. Although these doubly cursed patients frequently show up in psychiatric hospitals and emergency rooms, they are unlikely to get much help. "These are the troublemakers," says Talbott, "the ones that everyone has given up on." Thanks in part to the easy availability of street drugs and alcohol, this hard-core subgroup is rapidly growing. "Twenty-five years ago you didn't have this problem, especially among the young," he notes...
Mental health officials are beginning to bow to pressure from parents and medical professionals to create programs tailored for drug-dependent mentally ill youngsters. "There's been a tremendous grass-roots campaign to convince the mental health bureaucracy of the problem," says Kathleen Sciacca, a substance-abuse coordinator at Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center in New York. Indeed, this fall the National Institute of Mental Health plans to fund 13 pilot treatment programs. Says Talbott: "We know what approaches are necessary to treat these people. We just need to use them...
Libertyville, Ill...