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Each year in the U.S. thousands of patients die needlessly, or needlessly soon, or have the quality of their remaining life irreparably damaged because they have received incompetent medical care. In the vast majority of cases, nei ther a suffering survivor nor a next of kin has any recourse. Although malpractice suits now jam the courts, a malpractice award is no remedy; it cannot restore lost health or life or limb...
STAFFS. Congressional committees, as well as most legislators, have inadequate staffs to compete with the Administration and what some consider a fourth branch of Government: the huge bureaucracy that nei ther the President nor Congress can control. Despite a 1946 law requiring all committees to hire only professional staff experts, many still use political pals or unskilled generalists. Minnesota's Democratic Senator Walter Mondale noted that when he held a hearing to argue against more aircraft carriers, it was a case of "myself and one college kid versus the U.S. Navy and everybody who wanted to build a carrier...
...Reading your article "Norway Says Nei to Europe" [Oct. 9] was not very satisfying. Norway did not say Nei to Europe; Norway said Nei to EEC. which makes a great difference. In the article, Norwegian anti-Marketeers were described as a group of diverse elements, upset farmers and selfish fishermen "supported by a diffuse alliance of Maoist youth, Lutheran fundamentalists, mildly leftist university professors," etc. This bunch was reported to "smash windows" and "rip radio aerials from cars bearing 'Yes to EEC' bumper stickers." The only argument this bunch was credited with was that "EEC membership would allow...
Stanley Marcus, L.H.D., president of Nei man-Marcus Stores. Merchant prince in the best tradition of the term...
Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople, "first among equals" of the Orthodox prelates, proposed the conference, but, following tradition, nei ther he nor the other major patriarchs were present. Chairing the secret daily sessions for Athenagoras was his deputy, Metropolitan Meliton of Heliopolis. Per haps the most influential man present was Metropolitan Nikodim of Lenin grad, the chief diplomat-bishop of the world's largest Orthodox body, the Pa triarchate of Moscow...