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These symptoms of postaccident trauma are confirmed by doctors. Family Practitioner Dr. John Barnoski of Middletown says that he has been seeing at least four patients a day with symptoms of new emotional distress. Says he: "I have had responsible husbands and fathers in my office unable to cope with everyday problems. I have seen fear and frustration in the eyes of young couples as they bring their babies in for checkups." Adds the local doctor: "If the nuclear plant resumes operation, these anxieties and fears will remain and probably increase...
...defeated him in the finals of an American Farm Bureau speaking contest. Known to Indiana friends as Marvelous Marvella, Bayh survived a 1954 auto accident that left her partially blinded for three years, a plane crash ten years later in which she and Edward Kennedy were injured, and the trauma of her alcoholic father's suicide (after he murdered her stepmother), to face terminal cancer with a public vow "to value life, to cherish it and to begin my long postponed dream of being useful in my own right...
Several months ago, Zia had served notice that he intended to "hang the blighter," as he put it, but hope persisted that he would spare Bhutto's life if only to save his troubled country from another divisive emotional trauma. Thus reaction to the execution last week was one of shock and dismay. French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who had just drafted another appeal to Zia, expressed his "profound emotion" at the execution. Britain's Guardian editorialized: "Death came to Bhutto not with the due panoply of justice but like a thief...
...mind chemicals also hold promise for controlling emotional pain. Because the emotion-controlling amygdala region of the brain is rich in enkephalin receptors, scientists speculate that the molecules may act as a defense against disappointments and trauma. At the Salk Institute, Floyd Bloom is studying the possibility that endorphins may be involved in the pleasure received from alcohol and opiates. Once a person begins taking heroin, say, the natural production of endorphins may decrease. Thus, if addicts try to go cold turkey, the agony of withdrawal is severe. If scientists can create nonaddictive chemicals that bind, like the opiates...
...that we have become paralyzed as a result of the Viet Nam syndrome." However, Sisco finds the public mood changing more rapidly than policymakers realize: "I am absolutely convinced that the Viet Nam syndrome is not broadly shared in the U.S., that the American people went through a psychological trauma at the gas station in 1974, and they are damned tired of appearing to be pushed around. I believe the American people have largely put Viet Nam behind them: they know what we are talking about when we speak of the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula being a vital...