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...Angry Nurses. Two nurses, Sandra Kramer and Valerie Koster, found foul conditions at the Public Health Service Indian Hospital in Shiprock, N. Mex., where they began working in September 1974. They complained to superiors and finally wrote an open letter to President Ford, an action that received considerable local publicity. "The focus here," they said, "is on filling out forms, doing the least work with the least effort and just getting by." The Indian Health Service fired the nurses in January 1975 for "lack ... [of] ability or ... desire to become a responsible employee of the IHS." Public pressure forced...
...cash. Investigators do not yet have corroboration of the payments, but there is evidence that Flood and Passman pressured AID on behalf of Airlie. Former AID Official Jarold A. Kieffer wrote to his supervisor and to President Gerald Ford protesting Passman's pressure; an earlier letter from Kieffer to AID'S former deputy administrator John Murphy complained: "It does not matter who the Congressman is, or what his power over us may be, some things are just wrong, and his coercion and demands in this case are wrong...
...often the health topics that are dramatically expressed in the press do not reflect sound medical reasoning," Dr. B. Thomas Hutchinson, assistant clinical professor at the Medical School and a member of the Health Letter's advisory board, said yesterday...
...Health Letter shows the individual the sort of things he should be thinking about his health that he can't get out of Reader's Digest and similar publications," Hutchinson said...
Frederick H. Abernathy, McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering, said yesterday that he heard about the grant proposal last summer from Lee E. Landes, an executive at Ford, but that he has not received a letter confirming the grant...