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...nations for decades when it is within our power to do something about the conditions, or at least within our power not to support the oppressors, says much for the underdeveloped soul of this country. All we can offer, too little and always too late, are the mild reforms, cough syrup for the patient with double pneumonia. In El Salvador that cough syrup has been "land reform," the supposed distribution of the country's acreage to the peasants who farm it. Rammed down the throats of the Duarte regime by American officials desperate for some improvements to point to, land...
...attention to the mistreatment of political prisoners, but began to take nourishment again when his health was endangered. Friends and family members are fearful that Sakharov is more serious about his current fast. Sakharov, 60, who has long suffered from heart disease and high blood pressure, developed a persistent cough on the fourth day of his food strike. He and his wife, Yelena Bonner, 59, the mother of Alexei Semyonov, are drinking only mineral water to prevent dehydration. "His will is strong-it's his body that I'm worried about," said Liza Alexeyeva in Moscow. Before leaving...
...when she impulsively decides to remove her soiled dress and add it to the load. Her hair is in rollers and the pipes overhead are leaking. She spots her son's football helmet and dons it. There she stands, naked except for the helmet, when she hears a cough. The woman turns to face the meter reader. Says he, as he heads for the door: "I hope your team wins, lady...
Maybe a pharmacist would do no harm in suggesting to a patient what to take for a cold, a cough, a pain or an ache [Oct 12]. But then, who knows what the cold is? What is behind the cough, and what causes the pain? If a clinical pharmacist can treat the patient just as an internist would, why not train a butcher in clinical skills and let him practice medicine as a surgeon does...
...brace for a barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world--and hear a cough at a concert...