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...defiance as a signal for the union to enter "a new phase of struggle." In a communiqué that reached Western newsmen in Warsaw Saturday, five underground leaders called for stepped up strikes and demonstrations, culminating in an "ultimate" nationwide walkout next spring. Charging that the regime was "deaf to the nation's needs," they urged workers to begin with a day-long work stoppage on Nov. 10, the second anniversary of Solidarity's registration in court. In Gdansk, Walesa's wife Danuta reported that her husband, who has always ruled out violent protest in the past...
Premier Wan Li said that the Soviets "have shown themselves to be deaf to our conditions for a dialogue...
Thank you for the brief history of the tragic Armenian-Turkish conflict of World War I [Aug. 23]. Articles like yours help people understand why the Armenians are resorting to violence. If the world had listened years ago instead of turning a deaf ear to the cries of the surviving Armenians, there would be no need for terrorist acts...
People with ultra-audiometric hearing, says Berlin, are usually born with full-range hearing, but become deaf in the lower registers after suffering a high fever, virus or meningitis in childhood. Some have an extended upper auditory range and can hear dog whistles or the shrill hiss of a department-store electronic security system. Their problem, as in Kam's case, generally goes undetected because of inadequate testing. Most testing devices do not produce sounds above a certain frequency, Berlin says, "and it is precisely at this cutoff that ultra-audiometric patients begin hearing." Worse still, ultra-audio-metrics...
...Rowley, a deaf girl about to enter fifth grade in Peekskill, N.Y., the 6-to-3 ruling means that she will not get the $15,000-a-year sign language interpreter she sought. Rehnquist noted that even without such help, the youngster reads lips well enough and has sufficient assistance to do above-average work. For the more than 4 million other children protected by the 1975 law, the ramifications are unclear. Their advocates are generally relieved that the court left intact the statute's fundamental safeguards. They are fearful, however, that the decision's language leaves room...