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...militancy has turned up a mixed pinata of leaders, some of them significantly more strident than Chavez. In Los Angeles, 20-year-old David Sanchez is "prime minister" of the well-disciplined Brown Berets, who help keep intramural peace in the barrio and are setting up a free medical clinic. Some of them also carry machetes and talk tough about the Anglo. Reies Lopez Tijerina, 45, is trying to establish a "Free City State of San Joaquin" for Chicanos on historic Spanish land grants in New Mexico; at the moment, while his appeal on an assault conviction is being adjudicated...
...believe that drugs, not vaccines, will eventually conquer many other viral afflictions. Yet when the drug proponents met last week at a Manhattan symposium sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences, they were dispirited and disaffected. The vaccinators, complained Co-Chairman Ernest C. Herrmann Jr. of the Mayo Clinic, have hogged not only the limelight but also the available funds, thereby inhibiting the development of potentially valuable antiviral drugs...
Ironically, Burger might also be affected by the proposed rules. He receives about $2,000 a year plus expenses for serving on the board of the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota (along with L.B.J., who was appointed in February). While this connection seems innocent enough, it too would probably be dissolved if Warren's proposed rules against outside activity went into effect...
...stabbing was "a personal matter," which turned out to include the divorce proceedings that James had initiated earlier in the week. Swiss police said that the incident "was not likely to have serious judicial consequences." Meanwhile, Gladys, James' wife for 13 years, was taken to a psychiatric clinic...
Mental Band-Aids. Founded in January, Ann Arbor's storefront clinic is one of several thousand such emergency-treatment centers now operating throughout the U.S. Under a federal program launched in 1963, this census will expand even further. Their approach to mental illness seems to contradict much of prevailing psychiatric theory. Crisis intervention assumes, for instance, that the deeply disturbed patient can be snatched at the last minute from committable insanity-and that the last moment may be the best time to try. It argues that relief of the immediate symptoms of profound emotional stress is far more urgent...