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Because of the limitations of the study, no cure or major advances in treatment are in sight, Kemper said...
Perhaps the crudest psychological pressure was the deliberate isolation of the Americans both from one another and from the outside world. They were not allowed to talk to one another, and in some cases were tied to chairs facing the wall so that they were denied even the sight of anyone else. This form of mental torture brought a sharp protest from visiting Papal Representative Monsignor Annibale Bugnini. To determine any possible psychological damage, the hostages were given psychological examinations on their arrival in Germany...
...appears that a band of about 200 armed men entered the courtyard, filled with 50,000 worshipers, shortly before the start of dawn prayers. The men wore the traditional black robes and red-and-white checked headdresses of the National Guard irregulars. They carried coffins-a common enough sight, since mourners often bring coffins to the mosque for dawn prayers before burial. These coffins apparently contained pistols, rifles, submachine guns, hand grenades and daggers...
...biracial delegation of Salisbury's Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa, the plan will go into effect as soon as final agreement is reached on a cease-fire between the warring factions. At long last, an end to the seven-year-old civil war was definitely in sight. Said one senior British diplomat: "To those of us who have been trying to solve this problem for the past 14 years, it seems like a miracle...
...such a calming color that many school walls are painted "educational green" to reduce the restlessness of students. Now educational green may have to yield to an even more soothing tint: "jailhouse pink." According to Alexander Schauss, director of biosocial research at City College in Tacoma, Wash., the sight of the color pink changes the secretion of hormones, thus reducing aggressiveness. A jail commander in San Jose, Calif., who has tested the theory says it works-for a while. Lieut. Paul Becker found that prisoners were less hostile for the first 15 minutes in a cell that had been painted...