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OTHER MENTAL problems may well succumb to molecular biology. Many therapists resist the idea that emotional problems have biochemical equivalents; yet Freud himself believed that they do and that they would one day be identified. Researchers are already convinced that schizophrenia has some genetic basis, although, as Psychologist David Rosenthal explains, it is not the disease that is inherited but a tendency to it. As a match must be struck before it will burn, so must the tendency be triggered by something in the environment. No one is yet sure whether the trigger is cultural or familial, electrical or chemical...
...irrepressible Waters talked and Fitzsimmons listened. He signed immediately. "He told me the type of ball they play down in the Atlantic Coast Conference and sold me the school as well. I just couldn't resist," Fitzsimmons said...
Boston's major antiwar event will take place on May 6, when the coalition-led by Mass Pax and the AFSC-will close down the JFK Federal Building in Boston through massive non-violent civil disobedience. In this context, non-violent civil disobedience will mean that protestors will not resist if arrested by police, If the police attack demonstrators, however, individuals will be free to defend themselves...
...army ordered a strict 24-hour curfew in Dacca, with violators shot on sight. But soon the Free Bengal Revolutionary Radio Center, probably somewhere in Chittagong, crackled into life. Over the clandestine station. Mujib proclaimed the creation of the "sovereign independent Bengali nation," and called on its people to "resist the enemy forces at all costs in every corner of Bangla Desh." The defiant words, however, lacked military substance. At 1:30 a.m. the following day, soldiers seized the sheik in his home. Meanwhile, scattered rioting broke out in West Pakistan to protest the prospect of prolonged military rule...
...been an inchoate campaign, waged mainly by local ad hoc committees thrown together 1) to resist proposed state legislation liberalizing abortion laws, or 2) to fight back when a state court strikes down existing anti-abortion statutes. But there are signs that the campaign is gaining momentum, direction and some critical successes. Easily the most impressive victory to date has been won, at least for the moment, by the Illinois Right-to-Life Committee in a clash with the American Civil Liberties Union over the constitutionality of the Illinois abortion...