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...Service has opened a nationwide campaign of investigations, arrests and prosecutions to root out and discredit these fly-by-nights. At the same time, the taxmen have launched a sweet-talking publicity campaign urging people who have minor tax problems to seek help in preparing their returns from IRS agents themselves-a campaign that outside taxmen can hardly believe anyone would take seriously. Cracks one specialist: "It's kind of like asking the canary to visit...
Zombie. Another problem is what Manhattan Psychoanalyst Chaim Shatan calls the emotional anesthesia of captivity, a kind of psychological numbing that deadens feeling. Explains Los Angeles Psychiatrist Helen Tausend: "Many prisoners learn to cope with their situation by setting up low-key reactions in themselves-a kind of little death to save themselves from a bigger death." Back in the outside world, they often display a "zombie reaction"-apathy, withdrawal, lack of spontaneity and suppression of individuality. The symptoms often disappear quickly, but Shatan estimates that they can easily last three years. To a certain extent, he says, "You never...
Happily, both men emphasize that primary responsibility for protecting foreign countries should be shifted to regional groupings of the countries themselves-a subject crucial to U.S. policy in Southeast Asia after the Viet Nam war ceases. Humphrey says, for example, that Asia's regional defense should be led by Japan and India. But many exposed allies will be unable to protect themselves until they achieve political and economic stability-and that will require foreign aid. The Vice President advocates more U.S. economic aid, while Nixon hopes to hold it down by giving aid to fewer countries and inducing affluent...
...half-burnt-out, seedy Alec Leamas of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, has been sent from London to find Harting and recapture the missing documents. So far, a familiar situation. But Turner's main antagonists are not foreign spies; they are the British embassy officials themselves-a caste-conscious, emotionally aborted, washed-out crew of professional liars...
Overburdened Aides. Nor has Johnson succeeded in stimulating much new thought or inspiring men to outdo themselves-a fact underscored by the impending departure of such talented second-echelon officials as Assistant Attorney General John Doar or State Department Policy Planner Zbigniew