Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Clinical Psychologist Charles Stenger, planning coordinator of the Veterans Administration P.O.W. program, the fact of imprisonment has a psychological impact that is "tremendous-an extreme and prolonged stress." This starts at the moment of capture. "That shock is about the most overwhelming, stupendous experience that can happen," says William N. Miller, a psychologist at the Navy's Center for P.O.W. Studies in San Diego. "No one who has not been totally at the mercy of other human beings can understand it. It brings a feeling of total helplessness and then a fantastic apathy...
...renewed sequence of assassinations came as a shock to Ulstermen; since Christmas, the atmosphere in Belfast had been almost benign. British patrols had seemingly pacified the East Belfast area that had been the scene of many "sectarian" killings-the term routinely used in Ulster to describe cases where victims are murdered simply because they are Catholic or Protestant. Apparently exasperated by a delay in the publication of an anticipated British White Paper setting forth a new political structure for Northern Ireland, terrorists shifted their attack. Most of last week's shootings took place in West Belfast, where Catholic Andersonstown...
Politicians on both sides expressed shock over what Protestant M.P. James Kilfedder described as "fiendish acts of terrorism." Outrage shifted from the I.R.A., which had been carrying out savage bombings late last year, to the U.D.A. and the savage Protestant shootings that are taking place this year. "The time for pussyfooting with the U.D.A. has now ended," fumed Catholic Parliamentary Leader John Hume. "The British government must face up to it or there will be no resolution of the Northern Ireland problem...
...soldiers were in the rear or in noncombat jobs at the front. This book offers the reader dreadful panoramas of the Hieronymous Bosch Viet Nam landscape as it can be seen only by the insider: American interrogation experts presiding over whippings and water torture and electric-shock "therapy" of V.C. suspects (including women), fire bases overrun by enemy sapper squads because the defenders were all stoned on grass, the fragging, the profiteering, the six-month ticket punchers, the "cover your ass" mentality...
...hours within certain broad limits. Last fall rocked the conservative leadership of Confindustria, an association of the nation's private manufacturers, by proposing that small firms be better represented in the group and that Italian industry in general establish better relations with workers. "La scossa Agnelli" (the Agnelli shock), Italian newspapers called the proposal. After a number of such scosse, the press came up with a nickname for mild-looking Umberto: "The mastiff with the angel face." At present Umberto is aiming many of his barks in the direction of France's Citroen, with which Fiat has been...