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...People's Action Party (PAP), a professed "democratic socialist" party, dominated by Western-educated professionals and intellectuals and led by Lee, swept itself into the government of colonial Singapore in coalition with left-wing forces that had broad working-class support. The left-wing split off in 1961 to form the Barisan Sosialis, which the British and the PAP then systematically destroyed by massive arrests of leaders and intimidation of members and supporters, leaving the country today effectively a one-party state, with the media, labor unions, universities, armed forces and neighborhood associations tightly controlled by the PAP government...
...those who may still think of Extension study as recreational pap to pacify bored housewives and a variety of drop-outs, let me emphasize at the start that Harvard's Commission on Extension Courses is no cognitive picnic. Ranging through Architecture, Afro-American Studies, Geology, Physics, Urban Studies. Visual Arts, Zoology, and seven foreign languages, to mention only a modest selection, Extension embraces a constellation of germinal courses demanding concerted mental investment from widely disparate consumers. A broad cross-section of men and women at all levels of formal and experiential ability enhance the academic process with diversity, enthusiasm...
...Women's Community Health Center, located at 137 Hampshire Street, will provide general and gynecological examinations, birth control information, IUD and diaphragm fittings, pap smears and tests for pregnaacy and venereal disease, Elizabeth A. Sommers, spokesman for the center, said yesterday...
...hospital further increases efficiency by scheduling only one kind of examination each month. Last month's exam consisted of chest X rays; this month's will involve blood tests and urinalysis. For women, the March checkup will include Pap smears, which help detect cervical cancer, and men will undergo prostate examinations. Leg and foot examinations are scheduled for April, while eye examinations are planned for May. The 12-month cycle will start again next January...
...said that his birth control findings should serve only to remind women to undergo Pap smear tests annually. "The pre-malignant lesions are 100 per cent curable and are easily discovered," he said...