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...politics and varied cultures. She has followed the election campaign of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, covered a public flogging in Rawalpindi and finally traveled to Islamabad for her appointment with danger. "It was not quite the way I had planned to spend Thanksgiving," she says of her ordeal. "But I am really in the spirit of the holiday now. When you think you will either be shot on a roof or roasted in a steel vault, but then escape, you have learned something about how to be thankful...
...practice to treating airline personnel and families of the dead after fatal plane crashes. Hired by the Association of Flight Attendants, she conducts group sessions and keeps a phone line open night and day for troubled survivors. Reason: the victim's obsessive need to talk about the ordeal is part of the healing process. Says Barbeau: "The unburdening must go on, over and over again...
...refugee camps have a chance for full recovery. Many of the children, however, have already suffered permanent brain damage and bone deformation as a result of malnutrition. The riveting photographs of these innocent victims of regional avarice and ethnic hatreds have helped arouse universal horror at the ordeal of Cambodia. In 1975 the country had a population of approximately 8 million; as many as 4 million Cambodians have died since then...
Plastic surgery often has to be repeated over and over. Lynne Ann Courtemanche, 35, of Manhattan, has spent 18 years undergoing surgery on her face and body; the tumors are removed as soon as they appear. For Courtemanche, president of the National Neurofibromatosis Foundation, the continuing ordeal is preferable to no treatment at all. She recalls seeing, at 17. a picture of John Merrick. Says she: "I thought, 'This is what I'll look like in a couple of years.' I didn't really know if I wanted to live that long...
...year ago, Joan confessed her alcoholism in McCall's, but the ordeal dissolved her abstinence. A few days after publication, overwhelmed by embarrassment, Joan relapsed badly. Since then, friends say she has tentatively conquered the bottle. She has been seeing a psychotherapist, and attends meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous. She has checked herself on occasion into McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., to the unit for former alcoholics who "feel teetery." Her husband will only say cautiously, "I think she's making great progress...