Word: fatalism
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...asking the base commander for permission to assemble to discuss the Viet Nam war. Forty-three Negro soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, refused riot duty at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Prisoners at the Presidio of San Francisco staged a sit-down strike to protest stockade conditions and the fatal shooting of a fellow prisoner by a guard. Military personnel have defied orders against taking part in off-post demonstrations while in uniform. Underground newspapers, including The Last Harass, The Shakedown, Open Sights and Fun, Travel and Adventure (FTA) protest the war and "racism" in the armed forces. The papers...
...route to the hospital by ambulance from Cleveland, Texas, died of a blood clot just a few blocks away; complications prevented use of her heart. Then Dr. Robert Lennon, a Lawrence, Mass, anesthesiologist, called Cooley to say that he had a suitable donor. Mrs. Barbara Ewan, who had suffered fatal brain damage, was considered medically dead (complete absence of brain waves for a period of 48 hours) when she arrived in Houston, but her heart had been kept beating with injections of stimulants. She suffered cardiac arrest just eight blocks from the medical center, and was re ceiving heart massage...
...system." It took the human race centuries of thought and pain and suffering and hard experiment to devise it. Democracy is not a "state" but a process; it is a way of solving human problems, a way of hobbling power, a way of protecting every minority from the awful, fatal tyranny of either the few of the many...
Honest Reassurance. Siblings suffered too. Some felt guilty and feared that they too might suffer a fatal illness. Several complained of the parents' preoccupation with the sick child and felt rejected. A number developed severe bedwetting, headaches, poor school performance, depression and persistent abdominal pains. Nor were grandparents immune. Grief reactions and ignorance made some of them incapable of helping the sick child's parents. No fewer than ten families declared that one or both sets of grandparents had been more hindrance than help...
Presumably no one would baldly tell a child that he was suffering from an illness that was almost certain to prove fatal. Yet, say the San Francisco researchers: "It is a grave error to think that a child over four or five years of age who is dying of a terminal illness does not realize its seriousness. We have seen the pathetic consequence of the loneliness of a fatally ill child who has no one with whom he may talk over his concerns because his parents are trying to shield him. The question is not whether to talk about...