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...legitimate procedure. Chicago-based Continental Assurance and Continental Casualty companies have given their aye to the needle by announcing that they will pay for acupuncture when it is administered by a licensed physician in accordance with law. Needle treatment by unlicensed practitioners-the kind given in some Chinatown dispensaries-would not be covered. The insurance companies have no idea what their decision will cost them in claims, but they do not expect to be overwhelmed. The few doctors in the U.S. currently wielding needles are doing so on an experimental basis for the most part. They are generally so eager...
Though it was early in the morning when Mrs. Rhoda Katchen, of East Orange, N.J., arrived in New York City's Chinatown, she was not the first patient to join the queue outside the small herb shop at 11 Mott Street. Six others, one of whom had been there since 4:40 a.m., were already waiting for Dr. Huan Lam Ng, a China-trained acupuncturist. Soon 35 patients-none of them Chinese-were on line for treatment...
...acupuncture practice, and others like it, were once confined almost exclusively to Chinatown residents. Since U.S. physicians brought back glowing reports of acupuncture's use in mainland China last summer, however, such practices have boomed. Now they may be ended entirely, at least in New York. Concerned over acupuncture's administration by unlicensed practitioners, the New York State Department of Education has already shut down a Manhattan clinic devoted to the ancient art. Last week, it ordered Dr. Ng and a dozen colleagues to close their consulting and treatment rooms...
...wary men walked up to the green Cadillac: Kenneth Kan-kit Huie, 60, self-styled "unofficial mayor of Chinatown," and Tim Lok, 35, known to federal agents as "the General" for his ramrod-stiff posture. The four men?two undercover narcotics agents, and the two "connections" whom they had been trying to nail for four months?wasted no time. The agents opened the trunk of the Cadillac and showed the Chinese the contents of an olive-drab attaché case inside: $200,000 in $50 and $100 bills. Then the General led one of the agents off on a meandering excursion...
Though last week's Chinatown bust was motion-picture perfect, to U.S. narcotics experts it was another bittersweet element in an increasingly frustrating, not to say disastrous