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...which Brezhnev spoke lengthily about the opportunities for huge investments in the Soviet Union one Bonn official remarked "He was really talking about aid, not trade and paying off with raw materials." In Brezhnev's political discussions with Brandt, Berlin as always proved to be a problem. Halfway through the visit, the Russians refused to include any reference to Berlin in the joint communiqué. In response, Brandt refused to sign any statement at all. The Germans told their Russian counterparts that the use of Berlin as a pressure point was a central ingredient in the cold...
Farther up, past buried land mines and anti-tank posts of corroding concrete, up in a pillbox covered with netting and sod, halfway up the cliff, young Dr. Bleagh and his nurse Ivy are relaxing after a difficult lobotomy. His scrubbed and routinized fingers dart beneath her suspender straps, pull outward, release in a sudden great smack and ho-ho-ho from Bleagh as she jumps and laughs too, trying not too hard to squirm away. They lie on a bed of faded old nautical charts, maintenance manuals, burst sandbags and spilled sand, burned matchsticks, and unraveled corktips from cigarettes...
WHAT HAS PERHAPS been most disappointing in American writers since World War II has been their fear of dirtying their novelistic hands by getting too close to reality. So there has been a general tendency to retreat into myth or parody or the kind of halfway realism that takes place in the suburbs of reality. But Pynchon and Updike, in their last books, have thrown themselves into the ugly, unpoetical stuff of this society in these times. They are making novels out of sex and racism, hamburger stands, dope dealing, babysitting and used cars, moon shots and television sets...
...people to get the care they need--all these efforts are directed at a greater exchange of information. But people mostly don't pay attention to information until they are in need of it, and by then it may be long gone. The consumer must meet the information-givers halfway, by listening, by attending, by saving relevant material...and by asking questions. After working the past two years to make sure that UHS has one of the best possible procedures for helping people with unwanted pregnancies, our current survey on abortion is showing that a significant number of people still...
Finally, consumers must have substantial input and influence on the functioning of a health care facility. If we are to accomplish this, consumers must prove that they are responsible, reachable, willing to work to achieve their goals, and determined to make their opinions heard and responded to. Haphazard, halfway efforts only convince professionals that consumers can't really become involved in the issues that matter. And all too often that's all we come up with...