Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Initially, all three men remained silent about their treatment in prison, explaining that they feared for Americans left behind (TIME, Aug. 15). For Frishman, 28, who is naturally voluble, keeping si lent about his experiences was almost as agonizing as his 22 months in solitary confinement. Last week, accompanied by Seaman Hegdahl, he decided to "blow the whistle" on Hanoi at a press conference arranged by the Pentagon...
Only Nine. Most of the P.W.s suffered their worst treatment immediately after being captured. Some were forced to sit on a stool for days until they collapsed. Others, said Frishman, were hung by their arms from the ceiling. The fact that life improved when generals visited the camp led Frishman to allow that "possibly the higher-ups in North Viet Nam may not know the truth about our treatment." This supposition seems plausible. The North Vietnamese are extremely sensitive about U.S. public reaction to the war; coverage in the American press is carefully scrutinized by a special section...
...activities in Bolivia, the French intellectual says that he is in virtual solitary confinement and went on strike "because there is no possibility of breathing as I am locked up inside all day long." Elizabeth Debray was denied an audience with Bolivia's President Salinas to discuss better treatment for her husband. "I fear," Debray told his wife, "that we will all be transferred to a place in the middle of the jungle where conditions are inhuman...
...Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirlcsen, 73, "resting well" at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington after surgeons removed the tumorous upper lobe of his right lung (a biopsy proved the growth malignant, but surgeons think that they got it all, believe no further treatment will be necessary); James F. Byrnes, 90, former Secretary of State, Supreme Court Justice, Democratic Senator, from and Governor of South Carolina, at Baptist Hospital in Columbia, S C., recuperating and off the critical list after a near-fatal heart attack; Ford Motor Co. Vice President Benson Ford, 50, rushed from his office to Henry Ford...
...oriented toward the social sciences; it has just given him an eleven-month grant for additional explorations of the vital buoyancy of optimism. Eventually he hopes to establish that anticipating significant events can help people to live longer, a finding that could lead to important changes in the psychological treatment of the elderly and the seriously ill. If further study bears out this hypothesis, Phillips says, it will prove that "dying can be a form of social behavior...