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...columns that has appeared so far has brought a heavy volume of mail to the newspaper. Though Graham has not hesitated to scold doctors for their insensitivity and inclination to "play God with my body and my life," physicians are among her most faithful readers. At Northwestern University's medical center, one professor has made her writing required reading for his students...
Elsewhere as well, terrorist violence continued. At Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, Iraq-based Palestinian gunmen accidentally killed the local Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Seif Bin Ghobash. Their presumed target: Syria's visiting Foreign Minister, Abdul Halim Khaddam. In a remote region of northwestern Africa, guerrillas of the Polisario front, which is seeking independence for the former province of Spanish Sahara, kidnaped two French nationals in Mauritania, bringing to 13 the number of French hostages they are believed to be holding somewhere in Algeria. Following a special Cabinet meeting in Paris, French Defense Minister Yvon...
...explains in his recent book More than Two Aspirin (Follett; $8.95), higher temperatures mean an increased flow of blood there?and presumably a reduction elsewhere, including the head. Almost invariably, he reports, the technique stops headaches. Still another imaginative treatment has been introduced by Dr. Howard Kurland at Northwestern University (Quick Headache Relief Without Drugs; Morrow; $7.95). He applies strong pressure at four sets of points on the body (wrists, temples, hands and neck). The object of Kurland's "acupressure": to overload the nervous system's pain centers?in effect, jamming the signals from the headache. While Kurland's results...
...school administrators at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University said they will refuse to comply with a federal regulation that requires medical schools to accept for admission government-selected Americans who have completed two years of study at foreign medical schools...
...human rights movement. In Kunming, one poster demanded that people be allowed to live where they please instead of being assigned their place of residence. Another called for the abolition of the system whereby husbands and wives are separated by their jobs for long periods of time. In the northwestern city of Sian, a poster asked for the publication of two human rights declarations, the 1975 Helsinki accord and the Czechoslovak Charter 77. Declared the poster: "It doesn't matter whether Charter 77 and the Helsinki agreement are good or bad; they ought to be made public so that...