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Many addicts themselves are fed up with the programs, Dole and Nyswander contend, largely because of the rigidity of the bureaucratic rules and the indifference and sometimes contempt of clinic staffs. The result: "The great majority of heroin addicts remain on the streets, and the programs have lost their ability to attract them to treatment...
Agriculture department officials contend that farmers have exaggerated the extent of PBB contamination, and have used it in a few cases as an excuse for poor livestock management. They also insist they have found no detectable levels of PBBs in any milk, cheese or dried milk sold at retail since June 1974. Governor William Milliken has moved to resolve the dispute by ordering an investigation. But even as the Governor's probers were beginning their work, officials quarantined three dairy herds because of PBB contamination...
...Roemer in summary of the stern message of Dying, his searing 97-minute television documentary made for Boston's WGBH, to be aired this Thursday on PBS channels across the country. It is an intimate portrait of how three cancer patients who know they are going to die contend with this reality to the very end. Dying is a camera probe into forbidden reaches of our fears...
...people. For instance, the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations or the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations deal with virtually every aspect of the respective cultures and civilizations of the areas and peoples they designate. For obvious reasons then, the students and members of the faculty contend that it is more logical and more appropriate to organize the Afro-American Studies Department along the lines of these other departments...
...many of the Afro faculty believe that the Afro-American Studies Department should be structured to deal with the languages and civilizations (literature, art, music, history, social studies) of all black people, especially in Africa, the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America on an equal basis. We contend that the history of black people goes back several thousands of years and that even the experience of the black people in the United States should be studied in that context. We resent being regarded as a people without roots whose worthwhile existence and experience do not extend beyond the period...