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...from the very beginning in 1973 when Helms lied about CIA involvement in plots to secretly deliver funds in 1970 to the opponents of the late Chilean president Salvador Allende Gossens. Once on the witness stand, there was no telling how many intelligence secrets a desperate Richard Helms might cough up to save his own neck. Conversely, Justice officials and, in particular, the Carter administration acknowledged the need to hold Helms accountable for his transgressions while under oath; the post-Watergate ethos and Carter's own promises for an "open Administration" still pervade Washington...
...suffering from simple pneumonia. But when doctors at the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont in Burlington investigated further last August, they realized that they were probably dealing with something more puzzling and dangerous. As Dr. Harry Beaty, the hospital's chief of medicine, recalls, the symptoms-dry cough, abdominal pain, general malaise -"were defying all our usual concepts of pneumonia." So he promptly sent off blood samples to Atlanta's Center for Disease Control (CDC). A few weeks later the center's sleuths confirmed Beaty's worst fears. His "pneumonia" patients were, in fact, victims...
...failed. Presley had died of "cardiac arrythmia" -a severely irregular heartbeat-brought about by "undetermined causes." Doctors said there was "no evidence of any illegal drug use," although a new book co-authored by three former Presley bodyguards maintains that "E" consumed uppers, downers and a variety of narcotic cough medicines, all obtained by prescription. He also was wrestling halfheartedly with a fearful weight problem and was suffering from a variety of other ailments like hypertension, eye trouble and a twisted colon...
...lure youngsters to vaccination centers. Such gimmickry has the full blessings of the Carter Administration, which has set as a goal the inoculation by the fall of 1979 of 90% of all American youngsters-not only against measles but against five other avoidable diseases as well: polio, whooping cough, German measles, diphtheria and tetanus. Says HEW Secretary Joseph A. Califano Jr.: "Our national failure to protect our young from preventable diseases is shocking [and] a national disgrace...
...Mather tower if I don't stop asking them to supply me with jokes; Warren, Jim and Phil will put an airlock in the entrance to my room if I don't clean it up soon; Stanley and Martha will doubt my intellectual integrity if I don't cough up ten pages on Hume by the end of the week; and Lippy and Emily don't read the Crimson and therefore do not care if their names are omitted from this list. Incidentally, Harry and I switched columns this week, so read the Rock Caps. Later...