Word: moreno
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group, the Academy of Psychodrama and Group Therapy, got into the act by staging a curtain raiser for the main meetings in the form of a Kafka-style reconstruction of the personalities and possible motives of Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby. Said Manhattan's Dr. Jacob L. Moreno, who invented psychodrama as a medium for acting out emotional disturbances and thereby treating them: "We are all suffering from a tremendous amount of unresolved guilt and confusion over what happened to President Kennedy. After all, if you can 'kill the father,' anything goes. We are all involved...
...Moreno had asked Dallas Judge Joe B. Brown to let Ruby out to play himself on the psychodrama stage. Predictably, Judge Brown refused. Moreno also had asked former Defense Counsel Melvin Belli to re-enact his own part. Belli accepted, then failed to show. But every role had volunteers, and though members of the audience who sat as a mock jury took no vote, their consensus was plain: if the Dallas jury box had been packed with psychiatrists, Ruby would have been found "insane...
Thomas Mann and Miguel J. Moreno Jr., Panamanian ambassador to the OAS, finally agreed to accept the committee's delicately worded formula for restoring relations. Next day, however, President Johnson abruptly rejected the agreement, leaving the U.S.-Panamanian impasse exactly where it was eleven weeks ago, after the bloody Canal Zone riots...
...raging tones, Moreno told how "the voice of the machine gun" was the U.S. answer to "Panamanian loyalty," how Yankee bullets "sowed death in the ranks" of Panama's students during the Jan. 9 riots. The U.S., cried Moreno, is a nation "drunk with power. Panama's cause is the cause of all the Americas...
...presidential elections in Panama drawing ever closer, the canal is the campaign's No. 1 issue. While President Roberto F. Chiari is constitutionally prohibited from running again, he does not dare take a soft line for fear of lessening his party's chances. Ambassador Moreno is an opposition candidate himself-and his fire-breathing OAS speech drew loud cheers back home that could not be ignored by the six other candidates. As one irate Latin American diplomat put it in Washington last week: "The Panamanians are running their campaign in the halls...