Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Many of those who were involved in ground combat or aerial raids will reel from the shock of having killed people. Such a reaction typically takes about six months to set in. But, advises John Stein, deputy director of the Washington-based National Organization for Victim Assistance, "for some, the dichotomy between horrific memories and the sense of triumph will strike them as being psychologically intolerable right from...
Over time, most families adjust. After putting her husband "on a pedestal," Laura Root of Sterling, Ill., is looking forward to the shock of gritty reality: "I can't wait to have a fight and get back to normal." Military support services have moved into high gear to alert families to the dangers lurking ahead. Says the Navy's Falk: "We want them to understand that all this is normal...
...Palestine would send Israel into shock and generate feverish debate among Israelis. But in the end their only choice would be to face the new facts created by having a reconfigured neighbor. Given George Bush's search for a "bolder idea" than resuming efforts to bring Israel into talks to free Palestinians from military rule, a visionary move by King Hussein should quickly restore friendly relations with Washington. Who knows, Bush might even volunteer to join the King as a cheerleader for the new democratic state in the new world order...
During General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte's 17-year rule over Chile, few ever doubted the ruthlessness of his military regime. But last week a shocking report from the civilian government that succeeded Pinochet detailed for the first time just how murderous that regime had been. More than 2,000 political opponents were killed, the result of a "systematic policy of extermination" that included torture by electric shock, burning, asphyxiation and rape...
...long-rumored shock therapy illustrated the year-old government's failure to stabilize a chaotic economy. Inflation, which last year topped 13,000%, is still out of control. To soften the devaluation's blow, most salaries were tripled and Chamorro promised not to fire any employees on the bloated state payroll...