Word: allowances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With uniformed police, plainclothesmen and Port Authority officials surrounding the plane, Donald McHenry, Deputy U.S. Ambassador at the U.N., and a team of State Department and Immigration and Naturalization officials sought permission to question Vlasova. Soviet U.N. Ambassador Yevgeni Makeyev refused to allow the beleaguered ballerina off the aircraft. But on two occasions, two State Department officials were permitted aboard the plane, where they talked with Vlasova. Dressed in a snappy black jumpsuit, the dancer said she indeed desired to return home. "I love my husband. But he has made his decision to stay here, while I have made mine...
...small but influential group of nurses has moved in a different direction. Convinced that specialization, elaborate new machines and close collaboration with doctors reduce nurses to "medical technicians," they want to return to traditional services, such as counseling, educating and comforting. In their view, hospitals are too bureaucratic to allow true nursing. Says Nurse Annette Swackhamer of New York City: "Doctors have the misconception that nursing is physical care." In fact, she says, the frenetic hospital milieu does not let nurses listen to a patient much or involve the family...
...race-track approach offers several advantages over competing MX basing proposals. For one thing, it would be relatively simple for the Soviets to verify U.S. compliance with the SALT accords because the shelter roofs could all be pulled back simultaneously to allow Soviet satellites to count the MXs. For another, not much land would be needed, and all of it already belongs to the Bureau of Land Management. Only the 2.5 acres surrounding each shelter would be cordoned...
...have language that would satisfy Palestinian aspirations as well as allow the U.S. to establish relations with the P.L.O...
...Jersey Petroleum Executive Miles Lerman, a survivor of Nazi slave labor camps in Russia, agreed. "There is no way to measure what the Germans did against the helpless. Still you can't allow it to kill your own life. You must go on. And speak out: about Africa, the boat people, anyone in trouble...