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...surprisingly, Waldheim has refused to cooperate or recognize the trial's validity. Gerold Christian, his official spokesman, dismisses the TV event as a "mock trial with a preconceived outcome and a known bias." That is disputed by the producers, who insist they searched as hard for evidence to exonerate Waldheim as for evidence to implicate him. Among those likely to testify, for example, is Bruce Ogilvie, a former R.A.F. pilot who claims Waldheim helped him escape Nazi execution. "Everyone knows that Waldheim has been accused," says Producer Jack Saltman, "but our program may be the only fair hearing he ever...
...patients protect themselves? Experts offer the usual consumer advice: grill the doctor about each test, ask if the lab is accredited by the Government or a professional group, refuse procedures that seem unneeded and insist on a retest when in doubt. But few people, when ill, are up to bucking their physicians or shopping around for lab tests. Insurance companies have more power. Last year Blue Cross & Blue Shield created new guidelines for common diagnostic tests, which suggested that the plan might eventually refuse to pay for unneeded ones. The ultimate goal: to prevent useless tests from being ordered...
Harvard officials insist, however, that they are not trying to encroach on other universities and establish policies that all must follow. "We're certainly not trying to tell other universities how to behave," Shattuck says. "That is the role the AAU should play...
...demonstrate a serious concern for moral standards. The problems of South Africa are far too tragic and inflammatory to escape bitter controversy, whatever a university decides to do. Student activists will claim that officials who oppose total divestment are insensitive to the injustices of apartheid, while conservative critics insist that selling stock is only an empty and expensive gesture to appease irresponsible radicals. In this atmosphere, divestment can easily acquire such emotional, symbolic importance that is difficult to examine the issues with the objectivity they deserve. In such circumstances, the only hope is to try to convince as many people...
...Today's creators insist that their show is not competing with network news. "Television is a menu," says Friedman, "and not everything has to be / meat and potatoes." Tinker dismisses suggestions that the video dessert tray is not in keeping with the tonier series (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Hill Street Blues) he has been identified with. "My definition of a good television show," he says, "is one that hits the target it aims...