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Compromise. In the N.M.A.'s House of Delegates, the traditionally militant faction wants federal medical coverage for the aged. A compromise resolution, beginning with seven "Whereases," paid lip service to the A.M.A. doctrine that the individual should provide for his own health care in old age. But it proposed that states stop dragging their feet on legislation to provide medical care for the aged (Kerr-Mills benefits are now effective in only 20 states), and demanded "fair and equal distribution of this aid, and its benefits to the Negro aged, in those states which historically discriminate undemocratically...
Tricky Business. Archaeologists raised the alarm when they realized the temple's peril, and several schemes were suggested to keep the water away from Ramses' memorial. One faction wanted to cover the temple with a watertight dome, another to protect it with a curving cofferdam. Both dome and cofferdam could be built, but they would be difficult to maintain and would dwarf the temple. The most attractive scheme, conceived by Italian Archaeologist Piero Gazzola, was to cut the whole temple free of the surrounding rock and lift it with 308 hydraulic jacks to a new place above...
Their Student Council President, Howard J. Phillips, was making speeches throughout the East as an arch conservative. the average person, according to an anti-Phillips faction, was thinking of Harvard undergraduates as conservative because Phillips' name and title had been attached to widely distributed conservative pronouncements. The office of Student Council President is apolitical, they said, and its incumbent is elected not by the student body but by the Council (which is furthermore not a representative body). It was not his fault, answered Phillips, if his statements were associated with his title and misinterpreted...
...rebuild on the wreckage of the exile Revolutionary Council. At best, the council was a shaky coalition of the leftist People's Revolutionary Movement (M.R.P.) of Engineer Manolo Ray and the more conservative groups behind the Democratic Revolutionary Front (the Frente) of Manuel Antonio Varona. The Frente faction talks wishfully of organizing an anti-Communist crusade of 20,000 Latin Americans to storm Castroland...
...Moscoso, the result was a peaceful ride up the hill to his new job. And for Betancourt, it was another indication that he may at last be getting his faction-torn country under democratic control...