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...Isadore Rossman, who directs the Montefiore programs, hopes that the success of these pilot projects and the acceptance of others like them round the country will lead to the passage of legislation to create and buttress alternatives to institutional care. Such programs would prove an unexpected bargain. Montefiore's home-care costs about $12 a day, or a maximum of $4,380 a year. Even with an elderly person's rent and food bills-averaging at least $2,400 a year-added on, this makes staying out of a nursing home far cheaper than going in. The average...
Besides looking for ways to buttress his sagging armed forces, Saukam Khoy announced that he would seek a cease-fire with the Khmer Rouge and negotiations to establish a coalition government. The only response from the shadowy Communist insurgents was a step-up in their attacks throughout the country. After withstanding a prolonged seige, the government last week finally abandoned the city of Kompong Seila, 70 miles southwest of Phnom-Penh, and airlifted 2,000 civilians and troops out of the city. The Khmer Rouge advanced within mortar range of the airport at Battambang, the country's second largest...
...think I'm on pretty solid ground," said President Gerald Ford at his press conference last week, citing a poll snowing that 81% of Americans shared his opposition to a gasoline tax increase. Actually, the President was on very dubious ground in invoking public opinion to buttress a view that most experts - ranging from his own in the White House to even those in the automobile industry who will be hurt by such an increase - now believe is wrong. A President who simply followed public sentiment would be a cipher in the office, as Harry Truman recognized...
...West, the essays may buttress the conviction of Solzhenitsyn's critics that he is a mystical reactionary who places too much faith in the values of the Orthodox Church and Old Russia. Among Soviet dissidents, however, his arguments are certain to enliven a debate about the nation's future. Solzhenitsyn and his circle reject the argument that truly significant change can come only from within the Communist system. Solzhenitsyn personally takes issue with a second line of thought, propounded by Physicist Andrei Sakharov, who believes that Russia's ultimate hope for freedom lies in a convergence with...
...tactic was led by Flowers, who introduced the strike motion, then yielded his time to sympathetic colleagues. Cohen also took advantage of the situation by securing time to buttress his contention that Nixon had withheld evidence from various Watergate investigators. Sandman protested the reversed situation, complaining that the proceedings were achieving little and boring the viewing public. Nevertheless, some enlightening and sharp exchanges of views on facts of evidence were televised throughout Saturday afternoon and into the evening...