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...settled there after the expulsion-officially known by Czechs as the "transfer"-of 3 million Germans after the war, in 1945 and 1946. Another reason is that industrialization, avidly pursued during the years of communist rule in Prague, has stripped much of the land of its character. West of Decin, where we had crossed the Elbe, there is a new bridge, but the forest and meadow-the green countryside I remembered-have yielded to smokestack and factory, pipeline and drab worker housing. Lignite mining has left massive scars and transformed vast stretches of land into a moonscape. "This looks like...
That political "exposé" was the work of Nice's neo-Gaullist mayor, Jacques Médecin, who, like the rest of France's leading politicians, has been furiously campaigning for the municipal elections that will be held on March 6 and 13. The vote is a local affair to choose councilmen and mayors for the country's 36,400 municipalities, but it has assumed the dimensions of a national referendum on President François Mitterrand's 21-month-old Socialist experiment. The Socialists and their Communist allies in the government are expected to lose...
Greene became increasingly frustrated when Nice police showed little interest in following up the information that he gave authorities. Insisted former Police Superintendent François Guillon: "Big crime in Nice is practically nonexistent." Said Nice Mayor Jacques Médecin, who had encouraged the expansion of gambling in his city: "Greene is spitting in the soup to make publicity for his book...
August 1968 was a traumatic month for all Czechs, but it was piquantly and privately so for Vlasta Gabriel, the young mother of two small children. Ten days after Warsaw Pact armies rumbled into Czechoslovakia. Vlasta's husband Bedrich, an electrician and occasional truck driver in Decin, bundled the couple's children into the family car and defected to the West. He eventually settled with his émigré mother in Yucaipa, Calif., (pop. 26,000) and died of lung cancer not long after. Vlasta plunged into a lonely, uphill custody battle for her son and daughter...
What brought Henry and Chillquist together was Medex, a unique program that recruits former military medics to work as doctors' helpers. The program, which takes its name from the French médecin extension (extension of the physician), was conceived in 1968 by Dr. Richard Smith, a professor of health services at the University of Washington. Smith had surveyed his state and found a serious imbalance between urban and rural medical services. While the Seattle area had one doctor for every 506 patients, the ratio in some rural areas stood at 1 to 5,000. "We found doctors...
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