Word: trauma
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...white trauma in Detroit goes back to the devastating 1967 black riot, in which 43 people died. It is worsened by inadequate police, inefficient courts, poor schools, a $60 million city deficit and a mindless urban-renewal program that has razed blocks of ghetto homes without replacing them. It is compounded by lagging auto sales that slash black jobs, the prejudice of many white Detroiters who came originally from the South-and a massive failure of most of the city's leadership...
...diplomat in Asia suggests that Japan may be the first nation to score a breakthrough?a superpower without superweapons. Almost certainly, however, a nuclear-armed China will eventually persuade Japan to exorcise its post-Hiroshima trauma and begin building its own nukes. Unlike Peking, Tokyo has a head start toward a delivery system; two weeks ago, the Japanese became the fourth member of the exclusive space club (others: the U.S., the Soviet Union and France) by putting a 20-lb satellite into orbit from a launch pad on Kyushu Island...
...they found employ ers suspicious of their past and their training inadequate for secular life. Sociologist Schallert learned that many had particular difficulty in adjusting to mature relationships with women: "Girls sometimes tell them, 'You act like a 14-year-old boy.' " Even wearing a necktie could be a trauma...
...asked the President to stop it. U.S. officials preferred to call the herbicide spraying a "food-denial program." Starve out the enemy-regardless of the effect on crops (or innocent people) in a part of the world already in the midst, as Whiteside notes of "malrumrition, the disease, the trauma, the poverty, and the general shambles...
...turn out to be the biggest one yet for the leading scourge of the financial establishment, Wright Patman. For most of his 42 years in Congress, Texas Democrat Patman, 76, has flailed away at banks and the Federal Reserve Board as the main sources of almost every conceivable economic trauma. Now that those institutions are being severely criticized because of the current credit scarcity, Patman, as chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, is flexing his political muscle as he rarely has before...