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HERSHEY, Pa. (UPD: =
Two ‘psychologists said last
week in the first report on
‘the impact of Three Mile
Island on surrounding
rositents that the nuclear

t last March had
mayor ‘psychological and
philosophical implications.

“Tt. “was unanticipated, it
. was “unprecedented, it was
_non-discriminating and it
| was unmanageable,” said
| Dr. Enos D. Martin of the
Pennsylvania State

University’s _ College of ©

Medicine. . af.

“There. were no boun-
daries: to. our ‘fears. That
contributed. to., the intense.
‘anxiety that” perhaps
everybody felt. ”

psychiatry at the

‘U. Ss. faces.

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serious threat of whité
heroin smuggling from three
¢ Mideast-Central Asian
# countries - Iran, Pakistan
‘ and Afghanistan, the
i nation’s
# forcement officer warned.

Et Peter Bensinger,
# ministration...of the Drug
, Enforcement
fF ministration,

@ diplomatic. initiatives to
; persuade. those three
: governments to wipe out.
, opium fields. Eighty percent
# of the world’s raw opium
— supplies are produced in

i Iran, Pakistan and
Afghanistan.
He said the threat of

heroin from the three
Mideast-Asian countries has
been rising at the same time
Mexico’s opium poppy
eradication program has
helped decrease smuggling
| of brown Mexican heroin
into the United States from
6.5 tons in 1975 to 2.5 tons in
1978.

“What most concerns me
is the:Middle Eastérn heroin
situation... and, indeed,
there are an_ increasing
number of reports of white
heroin being trafficked,
particularly in the Eastern

4 seaboard cities,” Bensinger
4 said.
He said in 1975 the

7 amount of heroin from the
@ three countries entering the
4 United States was negligible
4 but by 1977 it comprised
4 about cight per cent of the
4 heroin imported into this
qj country.

ff He praised Mexico's
i} program to cradicate
{ marijuana crops and
\1 defended the use of the
‘7 much-criticized herbicide
4 ‘paraquat’ to | spray
4 marijuana ficlds.
&: 4

“I question if the harmful
effects of marijuana with
3] Paraquat are really more
i serious than of marijuana
without paraquat,” Ben-
singer told the International
Association of Chiefs of
Police in Dallas Sunday. A
copy of his specch was
released in Washington.

| . Martin, and Dr. ‘Joyce D.- 4
: Kales, associate professor of -

| white heroin
) (UPD - |
The United States faces a_- §

chief drug en-

called for .

located 10 miles from. Three
‘Mile. Island, said that
. perhaps one. of the greatest
effects the accident has had. -
on. people psychologically i is
.@ sense of: a loss':of in-

vulnerability, a ‘loss. of a
feeling of security and that
all is well.

“If we could only design a

reactor that didn’t have any
potential for breakdown,

then -we could feel safe
again, then we could be
invulnerable again, then we
could face the future again
without these fears,”
said.

‘The ‘two ' psychiatrists

_feported at a_ Penn State

- Was expected in serious
psychiatric disorders: as a |

result of the nuclear in-

_ cident, but “it really has__

conference o on | radiation and.
health on impressions based

on the initial phase. of their
‘study. It. included: ‘access ta ©
hundreds  - “of -interviews, ;

interaction with. ‘patients and
their families. and. contact

"with schools and clergy.

‘They. are now beginning a
more detailed study. to look

_ at individual responses to the . -
accident. Dr, Kales said she’. .
expected. to find “some very.

‘interesting -

and .
psychiatric information.”

Martin said no increase

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problems or had “turned i into

- subtle.

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| major psychological _ and

philosophical,
plications.”

even, im-

He said. people were not

- clear on the meaning of the

accident - whether it meant
nuclear power was. merely
developmental

&@ monster”,

“Bor : some people, it's like
we've reached’ the depth.of.

our despair .about. man’s
technology _ and: ‘about. the.
; dangers, of it,” Martin said. in

an interview - Preceding . his,
conference report.”

Martin and Dr. Kales

termed the.: _ accident | ae

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Nuclear accie ent had ps chological effects

disaster in the sense that it
was a situation “of massive'
collective - stress” even
though there were no ap-
parent injuries or ‘Physical
damage.’

“Certainly for those of us.

who witnessed the hap-
penings, and certainly in

.terms of the-reaction of the:
~ entire world, it seems that it
would’ be~ appropriate . to :
‘tefer to TMI in one sénse: as.

a disaster,” Dr. Kales said.

Martin, a clergyman: as. 7
well as:assistant professor of |
» psychiatry, said in.such'man-:
made disasters where there.”
is a. continuing feeling ‘it’ ’
might happen again; “there's...

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a feeling « of being. ‘trapped,
an anger over the fact that

this man-made technology i is

still in’ their midst: and they
can't really get away from

. it.”

“The: Streets are ‘for
the people.
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