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There is no way any country could cope with the aftermath of a nuclear exchange, even if it could be left "limited," Lown says. In normal conditions, 20 to 30 burn victims would saturate Boston's health care facilities. Even the 200 intensive burn care beds in the United States couldn't support a fraction of Boston's burned, assuming that there was any way for rescue workers to enter the radioactive ruins to get them into the hospitals in the first place. "People would be left to die," he states...
...been monitoring Israeli morale since the 1967 war, finds the national mood to be periodically exasperated but basically resilient. In a poll early this year, only 13% of Israelis considered the nation's economic and political position to be good, but fully 76% were certain that they could cope nonetheless. What is striking, according to another social analyst, Rafael Gill, the director of Public Opinion Research of Israel, is the way the public has lost faith in the politicians and the political parties. Gill reports that most Israelis are unconvinced that things would be any better under Shimon Peres...
...council last night continued its discussions on a city budget for the next fiscal year. Department head after department head appeared to answer questions, most of which concerned how they would cope with the 25-per-cent, across-the-board cuts in spending mandated for them by the city manager...
Eisenhardt and the younger Haas, a former Levi Strauss Foundation officer who is the A's executive vice president, plan to install baseball's first computerized ticket-selling operation, with satellite terminals in San Francisco, Sacramento, San Jose, Fresno and Stockton to cope with the lengthening lines of excited fans. The executives also intend to get athletes involved in community projects, and, as the elder Haas dreams, "win the World Series." October is a long way off, but if the new owners keep their cattle rollin' and their hats on the rack, their phenomenal success with...
Besides, he says, it is harder to keep up a saloon singer's schedule at 56 than it was at 30. "When I was younger and able to cope with it all, this kind of success seemed elusive," he says. "It was something I dreamed about in those days. Singing is harder to do now." His friends are not convinced. "Bobby has the image of himself as being worn out," scoffs Radio Producer Jean Bach. "It isn't true." And Short himself seems uncertain. "A friend of mine told me that I'm a constant fountain...