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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country noted for personal cleanliness, most hospitals are cramped and dirty. Emergency care is deficient in both quality and quantity. While Japanese technology and industry are flexible, high-energy enterprises, the medical establishment is rigidly oldfashioned, and specialized treatment is difficult to obtain. "Medicine is the forgotten aspect of our rapid progress," laments Dr. Hiroshi Kuroiwa, a gifted young surgeon who has recently returned to Tokyo after three years of specialty training in the U.S. "Things would be different if our medical system had been exposed to the same foreign competition as our business...
...York Times: "President Nixon has resorted once more to naked force to try to obtain his own larger objectives in Southeast Asia...However much Hanoi may be responsible for disrupting the negotiations-which is a highly disputed point-civilized man will be horrified at the renewed spectacle of the world's mightiest air force mercilessly pounding a small Asian nation in an abuse of national power and disregard of humanitarian principles...
...shot. To crowd his fellow moon walker Jack Schmitt, the U.S. flag and the distant earth into one small frame, Cernan had to drop to his knees in his stiff space suit and thrust himself backward so that the chest-mounted camera could be properly aimed. To obtain a view of Schmitt and a giant boulder, Cernan insisted on scrambling up an incline. He also aimed and re-aimed until he was finally able to squeeze into one frame the lunar rover, Schmitt and the startling orange soil that Schmitt had discovered at Shorty Crater. Geologist Schmitt also proved...
There is no rest for the flight weary. Coffee bars sell no sandwiches; even coffee, in espresso-land, is difficult to obtain. Toilets often bear signs reading UNDER REPAIR or CLOSED FROM 11 A.M. TO 5 P.M. Besides all that, the roof leaks...
...litany of Fiumicino's ills encompasses just about everything that can happen to a traveler. Flight information is virtually impossible to obtain; harassed clerks have little or no data on arrivals, departures and connecting flights. TV screens showing departure gates are often out of order. Signs are scarce, and the loudspeaker system is unintelligible...