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...that the seizure of German artworks may not have been "unlawful." They point out that it was a response to Germany's attempt at cultural genocide. The Versailles Treaty, they argue, contained formal provisions for reparations from Germany to Belgium, to compensate for the enormous destruction wreaked by the Kaiser's troops on the country in 1914. They also cite the Allied Control Council at World War II's end, which endorsed reparations for war damage...
...patients seem to know that morning-after birth control pills are a safe, legal and effective way to interrupt potential pregnancies, according to two studies released today by the non-profit Kaiser Family Foundation. The main reasons: doctors are not recommending them to patients, and drug makers are not advertising them as after-the-fact birth control for fear of apolitical backlash from abortion opponents. The foundation surveyed 270 women and 300 ob/gyns. In order to educate the public about the availability of the treatment, a small group of health care professionals are planning to post a list...
...doors of Bonn's new parliament building, and smaller sections of Frankfurt were also overrun. Shipping was suspended entirely along the lower reaches of the Rhine, the world's busiest inland waterway. In Koblenz the river rose to 9.27 m and surrounded the newly restored bronze statue of Kaiser Wilhelm I. The Emperor's bronze likeness appeared to be riding a sea horse...
...Mexican-American mother called to say her sick two-year-old had been left waiting five hours, then was turned away with only cursory examinations on two successive nights at the Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Hayward, California, 30 miles from San Francisco. Limp, dehydrated and near death, the child was finally admitted on the third day -- and immediately attached to an IV. Then, as she sat by her child's bed, the mother, a legal resident, was asked for her immigration papers. A Kaiser spokeswoman said the policy is to ask for insurance papers but not for immigration documents...
...want to treat patients covered by the programs, so long as they meet such basic qualifications for employment as having state accreditation in their specialties and approval to practice at local hospitals. By doing so, the bill would make it illegal for existing health-care organizations, such as Kaiser Permanente, the largest nonprofit HMO (enrollment: 6.6 million people), to restrict their patients to a carefully chosen roster of physicians employed full time by the plan. Says Dr. David Lawrence, who heads Kaiser Permanente: "This is a massive Chrysler bailout for inefficient doctors. We don't take just any doctor. This...