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Presiding over the Reagan policy is Energy Secretary James B. Edwards, a South Carolina dentist and longtime Reagan supporter, who freely admits his lack of energy expertise. Under Edwards, plans have been made to cut from the department's payroll about 2,500 employees by the end of 1982, a 14% reduction that could become even more pronounced in the months ahead...
Holt's return visit less than 90 minutes later on foot en route to a dentist appointment caused a second conflict which resulted in his arrest. Holt said he asked Dottin for his name because he resented being "verbally abused by a police officer...
...focusing on the reality of Kazem's torture, the team of Anthony. McElwee and Negroponte doesn't simply present scene after scene of tearful recollections. Instead, the directors rely on a rather commonplace scene in a dentist's office to evoke some of the horror of Kazem's persecution at the hands of the Shah's secret police. While Kazem lies prostrate in a dentist chair (a scene itself reminiscent of Marathon Man), the camera focuses on the dentist as he lights a match and uses it to sterilize a dental implement. The camera lingers on the match, and suddenly...
...Making the correspondents' task even more difficult was the fact that many women still have mixed feelings about abortion. Says Chicago Correspondent Madeleine Nash, recalling a visit to a Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Paul: "The cheerful waiting room could have been in any doctor's or dentist's office. But the impression that lingers is not of physical surroundings, but of the emotionally charged atmosphere...
...proceedings in her $10 million libel suit against the sensationalist weekly tabloid the National Enquirer (circ. 5.1 million). Said a determined-looking Burnett: "I'm very happy to be here. It's like a five-year-old toothache and I'm finally at the dentist...