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Another youngster, Lorene, who lives in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto, was so withdrawn before being exposed to poetry therapy that she stayed out of school, refused treatment for her disfiguring facial eczema and sought escape in alcohol. Visited at home by English Teacher Morris Morrison, she began to respond and cooperate when he read her two lines from Emily Dickinson, "I'm Nobody! Who are you?/ Are you-Nobody -too?" "In Emily Dickinson," Morrison explains, "Lorene could identify with someone as lonely as herself." Eventually Lorene went for skin treatment and returned to school...
...more important that the voice of free opinion is not silenced." Even though his Ostpolitik seeks better relations with the Communist countries, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt obviously agrees. He has consistently rejected Polish and Soviet suggestions that the stations' licenses to operate from West German territory be withdrawn...
...THESE SAME PROVINCES also illustrate the limits of pacification. When military forces were withdrawn from Binh Dinh and Hau Nghia, security rapidly began to deteriorate. The fragility of the whole pacification effort was reflected by the extent of its at least temporary collapse during the Tet offensive, despite the fact that the offensive was directed at the cities rather than the pacification cadres. The acid test of pacification is whether a locality develops the will and the means to defend itself against Viet Cong attack or infiltration. With a few exceptions, mostly among the communal groups, the current pacification effort...
...book Vietnam: Between Two Truces, Jean Lacouture pointed out that in the mid-1950's after Hanoi had withdrawn its troops and had agreed to end the insurrection by the southern Vietminh, the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem took drastic measures...
...admitted, Edith and Helga R. Hughes were one and the same person. It was his wife who deposited two of the three checks (one came by mail); it was she who had thereafter withdrawn the money in cash, carrying it off in airline bags...