Word: electroshock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...battle with manufacturers and governments around the world to curb commerce in these devices. Amnesty says electric-shock torture or the abuse of prisoners with shock devices has occurred in at least 50 countries in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia. "Torturers seem to be discovering that electroshock stun weapons are ideal for their evil purposes--cheap, easy to conceal and hard to trace," says Brian Wood, who tracks the weapons internationally for Amnesty. TIME's own investigation found few international controls over the devices, along with disturbing evidence that stun guns from the U.S., Asia and Europe...
...London, Oppenheimer infiltrated a group dedicated to using prayer and electroshock therapy to turn gay men straight. Posing as the group's security coordinator, he managed to help sabotage a conference by releasing locusts and flies in the church which hosted the event...
...came up the other night because our television set seemed to be imploding. The closest I can come to describing what happened is to say that judging by the picture and the sound, some person or force seemed to have decided that our television set could benefit from some electroshock therapy, perhaps as a way of calming down those relentlessly chirpy people on the local news...
...repairman would be the equivalent of Stanley attempting to find Livingstone, except that Stanley didn't get overcharged at the end of the journey. Then we saw a ray of hope. Maybe it was the cable. If we were lucky, all of our neighbors' television sets were also receiving electroshock therapy. The cable people, who value our monthly subscription checks, would send out a repairman right away...
...Eagleton reached a career peak. Senator George McGovern, the Democratic candidate for President, picked him as his running mate. Less than three weeks later, however, Eagleton was forced to withdraw after confirming reports that he had received electroshock treatment for depression. McGovern and Eagleton's replacement, Sargent Shriver, went on to defeat. Eagleton remained in the Senate, retiring in 1986, unwilling to undertake campaign fund raising. He serves on a presidential advisory board overseeing intelligence agencies; in 1995 he was instrumental in persuading the Los Angeles Rams to move to St. Louis. Would revelations of psychiatric treatment sink a candidacy...