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When she was not listening to the Vienna State Opera (for three cents a show), she found her chemistry skills useful in helping her to set up the proper glazes and found her scientific skills in high demand...
...occasion, Dole has drawn that line, as he did Sept. 8, when he appeared before the Christian Coalition's annual "Road to Victory" convention. Phil Gramm had spoken earlier and challenged the audience to demand that Dole, like Gramm, sign a pledge promising to support an antiabortion plank in the G.O.P.'s 1996 platform. When Dole arrived, several dozen members of the audience waved photocopies of the pledge and shouted, "Sign it!" Dole refused. "Don't look at pledges," he said. "Look at records...
Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic has signaled his willingness to exclude Bosnian-Serb "president" Radovan Karadzic and military commander Ratko Mladic from political office in the country. But he has not agreed to the Bosnian demand that they be extradited to the Hague, where they have been indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Last week, in a clear signal to Milosevic, the tribunal indicted two current and one former officer of the Yugoslav army for their role in the murder of 260 non-Serbs seized at a hospital in Vukovar in November...
...growing too frail to care for them at home. Six hundred thousand veterans, by VA estimate, will be suffering from Alzheimer's and other severely dementing conditions by the year 2000. Yet the VA and state veterans homes today can provide fewer than 40,000 nursing-home beds. "The demand for long-term care is going to skyrocket over the next five to 15 years," observes VA Under Secretary for Health Dr. Kenneth Kizer, who estimates that in the year 2010, 1.6 million vets will be 85 or older. "If you don't have the money, you can't provide...
Under Secretary Kizer was brought in last year to try to make the VA system more efficient, consolidating redundant facilities and shifting the emphasis from in-patient to outpatient care to the extent the law allows. But if demand begins to dwarf resources, he says, the VA will circle the wagons around its core mission of providing for veterans' service-related disabilities. Other services, such as nursing-home care, says Kizer, "are subject to being diminished." The extent to which the VA will be able to treat the poor or nonservice-related maladies will depend on the political decisions Americans...