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Until recently such situations prompted many police departments to call in the "Svengali squads," the teams of specially trained police hypnotists that sprang up across the country in the '70s. Pioneered by the Los Angeles police department, the widespread use of hypno-investigators led to hundreds of convictions, many of them in cases where battered rape victims blocked out memory of the crimes. Even the FBI trained some of its agents in hypnosis. But the courts have not been so mesmerized. In recent years a number of state supreme courts have declared that hypnotically induced testimony is inherently unreliable...
...plan after taking office in 1977. His aim was to create "facts on the ground" that would guarantee that Judea and Samaria, as he preferred to call the West Bank, would permanently remain in Israeli hands. Apartment complexes, looking like college dorm towns and housing 400 families or more, sprang up on once bare hillsides. Couples faced with paying $85,000 for a two-bedroom apartment in Jerusalem could buy the same home in the West Bank for as little as $55,000, complete with a government-subsidized mortgage. As a result, the number of Jewish settlers in the West...
Minor political discomforts sprang up along the way, notably a few vociferous objections in Ireland to the Administration's policies in Central America. But throughout the trip, Reagan stressed the themes that are central to his re-election campaign and that he hoped to impress upon his fellow leaders. Chief among them: that after nearly four years of Reagan's leadership, the world is firmly headed for "peace and prosperity...
...bubbles sprang up unexpectedly during the last meet of the season on April 29. Although both the meet and the season were completed without trouble, use of the track has been limited ever since because of the chance of tripping, says Harvard track Coach Frank Haggerty...
...bare red Jones at light center bulb stage, reveals the slumped Rev. in that familiar straight-backed armchair, legs akimbo, dark glasses shading eyes that gaze off dissolutely into space. The image has become one of our era's most indelible, and the events that sprang from it -Jones' the People's suicide-murder Temple of in 913 Guyana members in of 1978-still cry out for explanation. Jones town Express, which premiered last week at Providence's Trinity Square Repertory Theater, flounders somewhat as it butts against the incomprehensibility of the tragedy...