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Gorbachev's futile show of force surely marked another drop in his waning popularity. Amid the ranks of uniformed men, a solitary woman stood weeping. "This is the country I love," said Natalia Kositskaya, a 50-year-old doctor at a Moscow military clinic, "and I am ashamed of it. I never would have believed Gorbachev could do this. In the past two years, he has become a devil." Her tears continued as she pointed at the moving phalanx of police. "It is a crime," she said...
...sign that life is getting better. The hope persists, although the county has one of West Virginia's highest rates of infant mortality: 13.5 per 1,000 births, one-third above the national average. "It's always been a problem," says Franki Patton, director of Tug River Clinic's maternal and infant health program. "But I think the community has gotten used to it. They don't want to lose their babies, but they see it as a part of life...
...Several years after the clinic opened in 1976, the rate of infant deaths was 16.2 per 1,000 births; its efforts since then to provide better prenatal care and medical services have helped improve the odds that children will live to celebrate their first birthday. But the program barely survives on a mix of federal, state and foundation money, and the demand for services is overwhelming. The clinic's doctors and six outreach staff members currently treat 170 families, a number that could easily triple if the staff could handle the load. More than 90% of the patients...
Rachel and John are typical of the families the clinic serves. John worked part-time cutting firewood or driving a coal truck. The couple subsisted on food stamps, supplemented by the generosity of neighbors who often invited them over for dinner. Though the clinic is located in Gary, a one-hour drive over twisting roads from their spartan four-room house in Panther, Rachel, 19, never missed an appointment with her doctor. "She was one of our prize patients," says Kem Short, an outreach worker in the clinic's maternal and infant health program. John, 24, kept an untouched...
...present Riverside clinic] is inadequate in every way," said Reeves. "I think we should be proud of the neighborhood health clinics. An expanded clinic would be able to serve a broader cross section of the community...