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...alone has played plumber to more than 5,000 diseased hearts since 1962, and doctors attending last week's meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery in Atlanta report that revascularization is being performed at an increasing number of hospitals. Still, doctors are reaching only a small fraction of their potential patients. Nearly 250,000 Americans a year, or the majority of newly identified atherosclerosis victims under 65, could benefit from reconstructive heart surgery. But because trained personnel and adequate facilities are in short supply, doctors are performing only 25,000 operations a year, a fact that Effler...
...University of Wisconsin incident, a good fraction of the audience consisted of demonstrators, who held up signs and attempted to shout down the speakers. One graduate student even shouted obscenities at one member of the "truth team" and suggested that he go to Vietnam and fight, if he was so thrilled with this war. The University of Wisconsin administration took no action against the demonstrators and would not cooperate with government agencies which wanted to investigate the situation...
...Darlac Province, the lack of planning resulted in heavy losses of livestock, rice, and other valuable possessions in the process of moving to the relocation sites, according to one official who has interviewed the relocated Montagnards. Only a fraction of the water buffalo, cattle and other animals could be brought with the people, because of the hurried moves by truck and U. S. Chinook helicopters. Virtually all the hardwood furniture found in Montagnard long-houses had to be left behind. Cattle and ceremonial gongs were stolen by ARVN troops and later sold in a nearby Vietnamese market town...
...Buon Kli B, with nearly 7000 people - the largest resettlement site in Darlac Province - population pressure and advancing Vietnamese farmers leave the Montagnards with only a fraction of the land required to sustain themselves. Before the move, Vietnamese province officials planned to allot only two-tenths of a hectare to each family. But U. S. social welfare advisers estimate that a minimum of two hectares is needed to sustain a Montagnard family...
UNIVERSITY Health Services is finally showing an awareness of the female fraction of "the Harvard Family." In response to a change in the Massachusetts birth control law and to what Dr. Sholem Postel called "milieu-pressure," gynecological services, sex counseling and abortion referrals are being coordinated and publicized. The move stems from a January 18 meeting between Health Services doctors, President Bunting, Dean Elliot and two Radcliffe resident tutors. No student were present...