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Relatively Lenient. Rumania's attractions are obvious. Though European experts give Rumanian medical training high marks, admission requirements for Americans are relatively lenient. Until this year, when the Rumanians began demanding at least two years of preparatory college. Americans were accepted directly out of secondary school. It was this lure that attracted Raoul Mendelovice at age 17-immediately after his graduation from New York City's highly regarded Bronx High School of Science with an impressive 97% average. Now in his second year of the six-year Rumanian medical program, Mendelovice notes that he will be finishing...
...private buses. ConRail, now handling double its normal number of commuters, has reactivated mothballed equipment. Municipal agencies and many firms have staggered working hours, giving employees the option to come in any time between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. and leave after putting in eight hours. Police are lenient about parking violations. City traffic is heavier, but moving smoothly...
County law enforcement has been lenient, with no major drug arrests for several years. Sheriff Reymundo Alvarez has only ten full-time deputies, five part-timers and one patrol car, which usually needs jumper cables to get it started, to cover 1,211 square miles. Four of the deputies cannot read or write English. "We can't do everything here," says Alvarez. "We have to escort funerals and settle family arguments and investigate accidents all over the county...
...offensive Soviet act, the State Department will, in fact, let itself be remote-controlled by Moscow or the dissidents, however idealistic their motivation. Says a high-ranking Western diplomat in Moscow: "On the one hand, dissidents are undoubtedly helped by Washington's statements. Do they make Moscow more lenient? No, but they make it more difficult for the Soviets to bash Sakharov or send everyone to Siberia." On the other hand, it is difficult to link foreign policy and morality, because the Russians are proud, sensitive, somewhat paranoid and cannot be pushed too far. The diplomat continues...
...simply failed to register or refused to submit to induction. As for those who deserted after induction or enlistment, Carter said each case "should be handled on an individual basis in accordance with our nation's system of military justice." That seemed to imply that military officials, hardly lenient in such matters, would have to process all of these desertion cases and try to decide what was in each person's mind, some four or more years ago, that caused him to desert...