Veterans see heavy drug use in VA mental care
Dr. Louis Jolyon West told a Senate subcommittee that Vietnam veterans in VA hospitals are being chemically lobotomized with tranquilizers rather than receiving proper psychiatric care. He described Brentwood VA Hospital patients as slow and detached, and noted VA facilities have only one psychiatrist per 539 patients, due to low pay and poor working conditions.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
Congress
Louis Jolyon West
University of California At Los Angeles Neuropsychiatric Institute
Senate Veterans Affair
West
Brentwood Veterans Administration Hospital
Los Angeles
Veterans Administratin Neuropsychiatric
Armed Women and Boys Photo Linked to Viet Cong Unit
A Columbus Enquirer photo shows armed women and boys from a Viet Cong unit near My Lai before the 1968 massacre raid. The image, released by a U.S. Army officer at Fort Benning, surfaces as Lt. William L. Calley Jr. faces pretrial hearings over alleged mass killings.
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FT. Benning
May Lai
U.S
Columbus
11Th Infantry
Columbus Enquirer
Calley
Moose Lodge Plans Annual Christmas Party
Members of Lodge 501 of the Loyal Order of Moose stage an annual Christmas party for children 12 and younger from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday in the social room at 3010 S Main St. Dav Canter will show movies and Joan Ritter directs a sketch by younger children as about 300 are expected.
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Lodge 501 of the Loyal Order of Moose
S. Main St
Dav Canter
Joan Ritter
Columbus man charged after alleged gun threat at GE plant
Harry Marvin, 25, a GE Blue Ash plant salesman, was arrested Monday and freed on 300 bond after allegedly threatening strikers with a gun. He faces threatened assault and battery charges.
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Cincinnati
Columbus
General Electric Co
Blue Ass
Harry Marvin
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Ken Sorrell
Eddie Streibick
Kennedy
U.S. Court of Military Appeals
11Th Infantry Brigade
MY Lai
Moose Lodge
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Elgin
Ronson
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