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...story was inspired by Frelich's own. Playwright Mark Medoff (When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?) was fascinated by the interplay between Frelich, already an accomplished actress with the National Theater of the Deaf, and her hearing husband, Robert Steinberg, 39, a stage manager and lighting designer. Medoff, who is head of the drama department of New Mexico State University, promised to write her a play. When he finished it, he invited the couple to New Mexico in January 1979 to rehearse it. Says Medoff: "I picked their brains for months in an effort to find out more...
...symptoms of PTSD include mental flashbacks rooted in combat experiences, guilt pangs and feelings of helplessness. While not all authorities believe PTSD is very different from the shell shock or combat fatigue suffered by soldiers in earlier wars, those who do cite the uniqueness of Viet Nam. Says Jeffrey Steinberg, a Santa Rosa, Calif., lawyer who parlayed a PTSD defense into an acquittal for a client accused of assault: "The vets were viewed by the public as baby killers, as a bunch of losers. They found difficulty in justifying themselves...
...outburst by former Marine Charles Pettibone. He went to the Santa Rosa office of Congressman Don H. Clausen and was distressed to find him out. He held a knife at a security guard's neck for two hours until FBI officers got him to surrender. Attorney Steinberg got Pettibone acquitted on the argument that a sense of helplessness had catapulted him back to his Viet Nam days, rendering him effectively "unconscious...
...runway, stood a trailer converted into the dispatch office of Executive Aviation. EA, its twin-engined carriers and a snaky Lear jet, flew quick-order runs of car parts to GM plants around the country. Everything, from the reined jet to a sharp-boned and muscular Doberman, jutted sleek, Steinberg angles. Everything, that is, but an unshaven guy snoring in a wood chair propped against a wall with his boots on a table. He wore a Beech-nut "chaw" cap and kept a spit tin on the floor next to the chair. The Doberman sat poised as it grew dark...
Denver County District Attorney Dale Tooley, who with Steinberg presented the jury program to the students last spring, believes one reason for its success is that the kids get a hearing within days after their arrest, instead of brooding for two or three months while awaiting conventional trial. More important perhaps is the program's philosophy that young people are responsible for their actions, coupled with close followup: the district attorney's office remembers delinquents on holidays and birthdays-even after they have left the program-and makes sure that they observe whatever curfew...