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...urged her husband to postpone the Panama Canal treaties and some of the Middle East decisions until his second term. And she argued that he should delay announcing federal budget cuts that would affect New York City until after the 1980 New York primary. "My pleas always fell on deaf ears," she recalls. But through dogged persistence, she occasionally managed to get her way. "I wanted Jimmy to fire [Health, Education and Welfare Secretary] Joe Califano long before he ever did," she writes. "I felt Jimmy could find someone who would do the job just as well and keep...
...double-talk. First, according to State Department spokesman John Hughes, an international legal battle would draw energy away from the "regional negotiations" which are "the best way to resolve the conflicts in Central America." That makes some sense, but Hughes neglected to mention that the Administration has turned a deaf ear to the Contadora group, which has been pushing for negotiations all along. Nor did Hughes address the discrepancy between the alleged heartfelt desire for negotiation and the real Administration emphasis of late: squeezing a bloated military assistance budget out of Congress and clandestinely mining Nicaraguan harbors without informing...
...seven years, David Columpus could not understand television programs or carry on conversations with friends. Reason: an illness had left him totally deaf. But in 1977 life began to change radically for the former owner of a Michigan glass-recycling plant. He volunteered to take part in an experiment at the University of Utah Medical Center in which eight tiny wires were implanted inside his inner ear and linked to a plastic plug, the size of a nickel, inserted in his skull behind the left ear. On one memorable day, the plug was connected to a large central computer...
Last April the large computer was replaced with a microprocessor, the size of a Sony Walkman, that he wears on his belt. Columpus, 52, who now works as a counselor to the deaf in San Diego, has regained 70% of his understanding of the spoken word, although in groups he can decipher only one voice at a time. He can hear music played on a single instrument; orchestral sounds are garbled. This wedding of the computer to the hearing aid is the work of Kolff Medical, Inc., the makers of the artificial heart that was implanted in the late Barney...
...duplicating the complex way in which the inner ear translates sound for the brain. Dr. James Parkin, who is chief of surgery at the Utah medical center and will perform the implants, believes Ineraid would make it possible to restore the hearing of about 70% of the 500,000 deaf people in the U.S. who at present cannot benefit from hearing aids...