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American medicine has been able to compound all manner of miracles, ranging from the creation of powerful antibiotics that can dispatch a brash bacillus to the introduction of death-defying surgical procedures. Yet there is one illness that has baffled U.S. doctors: how to contain sharply rising medical costs, which have climbed from $42 billion to nearly $140 billion (almost twice the inflation rate) in a decade and now total more than the country spends on national defense. One reason for the soaring costs is more sophisticated care, but another is the "third party" problem -more than 90% of hospital...
Worthy's astute political prophesizing didn't stop there. In the fall of 1960 he filed an exclusive dispatch from Havana to his newspaper, Baltimore's Afro American. Worthy revealed that the Cuban government had knowledge of an impending invasion of their country that was being formulated in Florida and the Carribean. A deaf America ignored this report which foretold, months in advance, the inevitable failure of what has since become known as the "Bay of Pigs" fiasco...
Mafia Hot Line. Detective fiction has it that the .22-cal. pistol with its tiny one-ounce slug is a gnat swatter, at its worst a woman's weapon snatched from a purse to dispatch an errant lover. No self-respecting all-pro killer would carry one. The facts, however, are otherwise. The CIA has long preferred the .22. The agency's predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services, developed a silencer-equipped Hi-Standard .22-cal. automatic pistol during World War II. It turned out to be the only production-model handgun that can be effectively silenced...
...always helped Zaïre in moments of crisis. Despite his imperial manner and lavish personal taste, President Mobutu has so far managed the considerable feat of holding his mineral-rich country together. Almost helpless to influence the sudden state of affairs in Zaïre, the U.S. dispatched two planeloads of military supplies to Kinshasa; Belgium, the former colonial power, sent a shipment of light arms and got ready to dispatch a lot more. France and West Germany also dispatched aid to Kinshasa...
Jimmy Carter is anxious to avoid that blind spot in his Administration. One of his first acts was to dispatch Vice President Walter Mondale to discuss economic issues with U.S. allies. He has also surrounded himself with economic advisers noted for international expertise (Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal, Under Secretary of State Richard Cooper, Assistant Treasury Secretary Fred Bergsten). As further evidence of his commitment to international economic cooperation, Carter last week announced that his first presidential trip abroad will be to attend a seven-nation* economic summit scheduled for May 7-8 in London...