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...William Foltz, professor of political science at Yale, said U.S. administrations have "created political distance from South Africa mostly by manipulating symbols of disapproval," rather than by taking substantive action...
...Foltz added that the Reagan administration's current stance toward South Africa was merely "the Carter policy with tail fins and racing stripes." During both these administrations, U.S. policy-makers "have never made a concerted thinking through of policy toward South Africa," he said...
Jennifer Davis, director of the American Committee on Africa, said that she agreed with Foltz's analysis of the inertia of U.S. South African policy during the last two decades, but that she saw a more significant shift in attitude during the Reagan presidency...
...seems incredible to me that Public Health Researcher Foltz and Epidemiologist Kelsey, described in your story "Flap About Pap" [Nov. 13], would put down the Pap smear on the basis of "considerable expense." This relatively simple test, which can detect cancer, costs only about $6. Further, if the test does not detect cancerous conditions 25% to 30% of the time, isn't this all the more reason to have checkups annually and not every three to five years...
...atypical or cancerous condition erroneously receive a normal report. One study shows that because the condition of the cells is sometimes misinterpreted by the laboratory, another 7% of tested women who are in good health are told they have suspicious smears, after which a biopsy is often recommended. To Foltz and Kelsey, such statistics at the very least indicate that the Pap test is being overused at considerable expense to the public; the cost of mass annual screening, including office visit charges for women seeing their gynecologists solely for the annual test, runs in the millions...