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...credentials to try and cope with HEW, that man is Joseph A. Califano Jr.?the ebullient, energetic and experienced Secretary of HEW. An impassioned advocate of federal programs, he devised many of them as President Lyndon Johnson's chief domestic adviser. Yet if he is a big spender and a master bureaucrat, he is also a canny enough politician to know that limits of some kind have been reached. Says Califano: "I am trying to make the department a symbol of the manageability of government. I want to deliver the services that have been set up to the people...
...attack on Zaïre was deadly serious. The downfall of President Mobutu Sese Seko?the avowed goal of the secessionists?could have led to another full-scale civil war in that perennially troubled country. But it also raised questions as to how the U.S. and its allies should cope with what appears increasingly to be a strong Soviet-Cuban political campaign in black Africa. Three years ago, the Cubans helped the Marxist faction of President Agostinho Neto win a civil war in Angola against two other nationalist groups. The Cubans stayed on to shore up Neto's Popular Movement government...
...begins to cope more directly with the once taboo subject of death, the hospice idea is likely to spread even farther and faster. Sandol Stoddard's sympathetic new book, The Hospice Movement: A Better Way of Caring for the Dying (Stein & Day; $8.95), is already in its third printing. Next October, at its first annual meeting in Washington, the N.H.O. will push for legislation that will allow insurance payments for hospice care. Zachary Morfogen, N.H.O. chairman, thinks enormous strides have already been made. Says he: "Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to persuade any corporation to include...
Fahd also refused to link Saudi policy on the dollar and oil prices with the aircraft sale, but he was critical of Washington for failing to cope with America's energy problems. "We will do our best to help the U.S. and our other friends in meeting their requirements and overcoming whatever difficulties they may have in this respect. As you know, we decide on the quantity of our oil production according to world need. But the so-called energy crisis is not necessarily connected only to the volume of oil production. For example, the U.S., the largest...
...under attack. In the 1970s. Uruguay, once the model of democracy in South America, succeeded in wiping out the leftist Tupamaros. The cost was great: the get-tough climate set the stage for the military to seize power and set up a dictatorship. The dilemma of how to cope with terrorism is not lost on any European government these days. Spanish Premier Adolfo Suarez's center-right coalition warned last week that the Moro tragedy was not an isolated phenomenon but indicated "a generalized threat to all democracies and an intent to destabilize on a European scale...