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Only a few days earlier Gonzalez had undergone another psychiatric evaluation. After being observed on a street making wild threats ("I'm going to kill! God told me so!"), he had been taken to Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital. Physicians concluded he had a "psychotic paranoid disorder," but released him after two days...
Just a few months ago, Lyndon LaRouche was widely regarded as a weird joke. A 63-year-old former Communist, he now lives in millionaire-style luxury on a heavily guarded, 174-acre compound in Virginia, wages fringe presidential bids and is head of an eccentric and paranoid political movement. At airports around the country, his impassioned, clean-cut followers hawk propaganda calling for the quarantine of AIDS victims and accusing numerous notables, including Henry Kissinger and Walter Mondale, of being Soviet agents. But when two LaRouchites posing as mainstream candidates won the Illinois Democratic state primary nominations for Lieutenant...
...advantages that the system accrued questionable. "First we used reverse psychology and then we used double reverse psychology," said John M. Salera '89 of his group's attempts to determine which house they had the best chance of getting into. Ian R. Pollit '89 said, "People are really paranoid about this thing...
After consulting with the rock group, SPAconcluded that the concert would be moresuccessful in the fall, Paton said. "We decidedthat it would be easier to catch the attention ofstudents geared up for a new year than those whoare paranoid about exams and ready to leave forhome," Paton said...
...others in our group had more problems reaching their ultimate destination. After more than three paranoid hours riding the Moscow subways, Shoshana Robinson '86 and Rebecca Sheridan '86, lost and discouraged, decided to try one last address. They followed directions to the very outskirts of the city, found the apartment building and rang the bell...