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Sadat is not the only one out on a limb. It is possible that the middleman in the current diplomatic exercise?the U.S.?and the two antagonists could all emerge feeling ill-used. The U.S. appears increasingly convinced that the Israelis have grown too rigid, as indeed they have. The Israelis feel that the Americans, particularly Rogers and his State Department, are so anxious to restore U.S. influence in the Arab world that they are willing to impose unacceptable risks on Israel. Golda Meir's government maintains that its policy of tenacity will compel the Arabs to come around...
...building roads in Europe in a black company commanded by Southern whites. As a first sergeant he became an effective negotiator between officers and men. "I insisted on the officers treating the men with dignity and eliminating all forms of brutality," he recalled. He later utilized the same middleman skills in service with Urban League units in St. Paul and Omaha, as dean of Atlanta University's School of Social Work, and upon joining the Urban League's national staff...
Medical Middlemen. Even today, most U.S. hospitals follow the practice of extending staff privileges to private physicians, who may then admit their own patients or refer them to other private specialists on the staff. But the Bassett set out to be more than a medicine middleman for private practice. The hospital put its staff members on the payroll and became the primary provider of health care in Cooperstown. Now patients seeking attention can go directly to one of the hospital's seven specialty clinics or be referred from the general services department. Doctors treating patients in one department...
Most of these services are above-board. But they are middleman organizations, out to make a profit from a medical service which is badly in need of straightforward accessibility to anyone in need. There is no reason why anyone should have to pay to get facts on what an abortion is and how it is performed. And there is no reason why, with background information on a number of clinics and their procedures, an individual cannot call and make an appointment for herself...
...lengthened his list of clients and for a while he was making $60,000 a year. Then, at the CIA's suggestion, he began cooperating with the FBI because of his developing contacts with gangsters. Itkin became a wheeler-dealer within Mafia circles, functioning, for instance, as a middleman and graft collector on loans made by Teamsters Union pension funds. He would pass on a percentage to the gangsters, while keeping a cut for himself...