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Washington remained wary, meanwhile, of Brezhnev's proposal for a summit meeting.* Though both Canada and West Germany are receptive to the idea, Haig and Reagan persuaded both countries to assent to the American view: such a meeting can occur only after a basic groundwork has been laid at lower levels, and will be contingent on Soviet actions in Afghanistan and during the Polish crisis. The Moscow "peace offensive" is seen by Washington as primarily a propaganda ploy. But Haig agreed at week's end to hold low-level talks promptly with the Soviets...
...doubtful that such "repugnant changes" will occur. Insiders believe that Reagan's final Executive order will be less restrictive than Carter's, but more protective of American freedoms than last week's draft proposal. Interestingly enough, Ronald Reagan, then a private citizen and former Governor, was a member of the presidential commission headed by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller in 1975 that recommended many of the present restrictions. The commission's conclusion: "Presidents should refrain from directing the CIA to perform what are essentially internal security tasks...
Patients have long been aware that doctors sometimes kill as well as cure. Doctors have long insisted that medically caused mishaps do not occur in significant numbers. Now two medical research teams in Boston have challenged that assumption. One team, led by Geriatrics Specialist Knight Steel, found that out of 815 patients admitted during five months of 1979 to a hospital at the Boston University Medical Center, 290 suffered almost 500 medical mishaps. More than 200 of these complications were due to drugs. An additional 175 resulted from other treatments or diagnostic tests. These mishaps contributed to the death...
Couch attributes surgery-related mishaps to clearly avoidable errors by doctors who were too quick to operate, too confident of their skills and techniques, and too concerned with doing currently fashionable procedures. By contrast, Steel feels it is often impossible to assign blame for complications that occur among general medical patients, and that this is even more true for the many elderly patients with multiple ailments in the study. The complex of diagnostic tests and drugs used makes it difficult to isolate any one cause of trouble. Says Steel: "I don't really know for certain...
...forum--scheduled for April 1--will occur one week before the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility's (ACSR) April 7 open meeting on Harvard investment issues...