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Monday, October 12. 1992
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A free educational forum
Depression is as common as the common cold.
Like the common cold, depression can strike anyone at any time. But, unlike the common cold, depression can be cured.
We all experience depression over the course of a lifetime, and one fourth of us experience a depression that warrants treatment. Only a third of us who could benefit from professional help seek it. For those who don't, the symptoms may fade away but are likely to recur. The sooner depression is detected and treated, the more effective the results.
As part of National Mental Illness Awareness Week, The Menninger Clinic will present a free public Depression Education Forum that features
A presentation on depression by the Menninger professional staff
A question and answer period coordinated by Meninger mental health professionals
A volunteer, self-administered questionnaire, and
The 30-minute film Depression: The Storm Within
An opportunity, if you choose, to meet privately with a Menninger mental health professional. (This five-minute screening is designed to be informational and will provide free professional guidance, but it is not a substitute for a detailed, psychiatric evaluation.)
At Menninger we've been helping people with depression for more than 65 years. We invite you to learn more about this widely misunderstood and very treatable illness. This is an opportunity for you to help yourself or someone you know. No reservations are required.
A voluntary, self-administered questionnaire, and
Tuesday, October 13 7-9 pm
Seekey Conference Center 5800 SW Sixth Avenue Topeka, KS
From any city in Missouri or Kansas, please call for further information 1 800 351 9058, ext. 777.
Directions
to reach Meningerion from westbound I-70, exit I-70 at Wanamaker Road and turn north onto Wanamaker.
Eastbound traffic on I-70 should exit onto I-470
East and exit again onto SW Huntoon St./Wanamaker Rd. Turn east onto Huntoon St. and then turn north onto Wanamaker.
Wanamaker will curve right onto Sixth Avenue. Turn left at the light, the main campus entrance.
Iraq releases U.S. prisoner after two days of captivity
The Associated Press
KUWAIT — A U.S. bomb-disposal expert, who was freed in Kuwait after Iraq police had seized him during a border dispute three days earlier, blinked back tears yesterday as he described the ordeal but said he was not harmed.
The expert, Chad Hall, was released Saturday after two days in Iraq. He said his hopes for a quick and peaceful resolution of the dispute withered when he was led away at gunpoint, taken to Baghdad and issued a prison uniform.
The United Nations took custody of Hall in Baghdad Saturday and flew him to its border headquarters at Um Qasr for a medical examination yesterday before flying him to Kuwait.
Hall was taken to the U.S. Embassy after U.N. officials turned him over to Ambassador Edward W. Gnehm Jr. at Nairobi on October 25.
Pale and weary, Hall described how an Iraqi colonel threatened to shoot him at the border and security forces in Baghdad interrogated him about his family.
Still, he said, he was not mistreated. "I am probably the only guy in captivity who gained weight," quipped the 50-year-old Hall, who carries about 220 pounds on a 6-foot-1-inch frame.
Hall, a retired U.S. Army major, said a Pakistani co-worker had tried to win his release by telling his captors that Hall was a U.S. general. That put an end to the friendly banter, and an Iraqi colonel sent to his car and emerged with a pistol, Hall told reporters at the U.S. Embassy.
The Iraqi colonel told Hall he had the authority to shoot him if necessary. Hall said.
Hall said that his captors headed for Basra, not to their headquarters at nearby Um Qasr as he was told. From Basra, he was moved to Baghdad, where he was searched and questioned for the first time, and issued a prison uniform.
Hall's seizure Thursday afternoon in a disputed section of the Iraq-Kuwait border raised tensions in the wake of the U.S. presidential election. There was speculation that Baghdad was trying to provoke President Bush, but Iraq blamed the incident on confusion along the unmarked frontier.
Two Britons and three Swedes arrested in the disputed zone over the past three months all were sentenced to seven years in prison for illegally entering the country. Hell and brazen, they are the worst offenders.
Hall was disposing of undetonated mines and other ammunition in a section of Kuwait that belonged to Iraq until a U.N. panel redrew the border and assigned the territory to Kuwait. Iraq does not recognize the new border.
Hall said she's now another prisoner of White in captivity. Cynthia Orms, representative for Environmental Health Research and Testing, Hall's Lexington, Ky., employer, said Hall was to leave yesterday on a commercial flight to Texas to see his family. He is expected to return to his job in Kuwait at an unscheduled date.
Hall urged greater liaison work between the United Nations and border police forces to save others from his ordeal.
Pope praises Columbus at Mass
Speech contrasts with protests in Latin America
The Associated Press
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Pope John Paul II paid tribute yesterday to Christopher Columbus for helping plant the seeds of Christianity in the New World.
The homage, at a Mass beside a controversial lighthouse dedicated to the explorer, stood in contrast to protests in parts of Latin America. Protesters said the arrival of Columbus 500 years ago marked the beginning of European conquest and the abuse of native peoples.
would not take part in any official commemoration of Columbus' explorations but that he would be marking one of the first Christian missionsaries.
The Vatican had said that the pope
"We are gathered in front of this Columbus Lighthouse, built in the form of a cross to symbolize the cross of Christ planted on this earth in 1492," the pole said yesterday.
Pope John Paul, on his flight from Rome, acknowledged abuses by some of the early missionaries but said these were denounced by other Christians at the time. He said the overall record was positive.
Tens of thousands of people waved red, white and blue Dominican flags and yellow and white Vatican flags as the glassed-in popemobile passed by the grassy esplanade beside the lighthouse.
Police and soldiers closed off the
main bridge connecting the monument to downtown Santo Domingo, allowing only those with Mass tickets to pass.
A concrete-and-stone wall blocked nearby slums from the pope's view. People living in the shanties behind the barrier refer to it as the "Wall of Shame" representing President Joaquin Balaguer's efforts to hide his nation's problems, including chronic high unemployment.
Opponents of the lighthouse have accused the president of wasting millions of dollars on the project. They also object to ceremonies honoring the European explorer.
In the past few weeks, anti-quincentennial protests have been held in Mexico, Peru, Colombia and the Dominican Republic, where Columbus established his foothold in the New World.
Why Every Preacher in Lawrence Should Go To Hell.
That's right, every preacher in Lawrence, and for that matter, every preacher anywhere, deserves to burn in Hell. The only reason they won't is if they have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Not only every preacher, but every man and woman. The Bible says, ...there is none righteous, no, not one. There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Romans 3:10-11, & 23.
But don't take our word for it. Check it out yourself.