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...within the range of snipers. Affairs of state moved forward-cautiously. At the end of his visit with President Carter, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin left quietly with no farewell ceremony; incoming British Prime Minister James Callaghan did not receive the traditional 19-gun salute, for fear it might trigger a slaughter. All this was the work of a mere dozen men who held 132 hostages in three Washington buildings for a chilling 38 hours. The terrorists made dramatically clear what has become all too obvious: anybody with a cause and a gun, be he mad or madcap, fanatic...
Still, Russia's angry warning shots indicate that the Carter Administration has pressed a vulnerable nerve. Says one analyst: "The Soviets are extremely irritated. They're puzzled, worried and scratching around for ways to fight back." The bizarre charges of espionage in Izvestia could, in fact, trigger a fresh round of recriminations. Accused Diplomat Presel is now on medical leave in West Germany, and some U.S. officials assume that he will not be allowed back in. If so, the U.S. will surely reply by sending a Soviet diplomat of similar rank packing home to Moscow...
Jaynes thinks the bicameral mind is a reality, and could be reawakened in special cases if anyone cared to. Says he: "If you took a young child with a family history of schizophrenia (in other words, the right chemical trigger) and if that child also had an imaginary playmate-a vestige of the old voices-you could train that child to bicamerality." The problem, he says, is that the child could not function in the modern world any more than a schizophrenic can. For mankind as a whole, "the voices are dead. We are stuck in a conscious world...
...died in a traffic accident while trying to escape arrest, but refugees told a far different story. They charged that the victims had been taken to an army barracks, where they were bullied, beaten and finally shot. Some reports even had it that Amin himself had pulled the trigger, but Amin angrily denied the charge, and there were, of course, no firsthand witnesses. Amin refused to allow the archbishop's family to view his body before soldiers buried the sealed coffin in his native village. Some Ugandans doubted that the coffin contained Luwum's remains; they suspected that...
Businessman: Humiliated. The trigger words are diaper, pin, powder and naughty...