Word: physicians
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Even attempts to investigate Billig were marred by incompetence and misdirection. Scarcely a week after he had begun his inquiry, Hodges was telephoned by his onetime commanding officer, Captain James Quinn, who told him to drop the Billig case. "He accused me of ruining the reputation of an outstanding physician," Hodges testified. "I was chewed out severely." Quinn, who is now retired from the Navy, has received a letter of censure. The review ultimately cleared Billig, and four of the deaths with which he is charged occurred in the following year. Outrage over the Billig case has focused attention...
Indeed, it was the end of a bloody era in Haiti's history. Baby Doc's father Francois Duvalier was a soft-spoken middle-class physician who encouraged Haitian peasants to believe that he possessed magical powers through the use of the country's folk religion, voodoo. Elected President in 1957, Duvalier guaranteed liberty and well-being to all Haitians, but the pledge soon rang hollow. Duvalier forbade criticism of his leadership and declared himself President-for-Life in 1964. He posed for a portrait that showed an image of Jesus Christ clapping him on the shoulder...
...This is my people, my home and my heart," said Dr. Haing S. Ngor, on the Thai border of his troubled homeland, Cambodia. A year after his Oscar-winning portrayal of a news photographer's harrowing escape from the Communist Khmer Rouge in The Killing Fields, the physician turned movie star has returned to Southeast Asia to complete a European television documentary and a book. "I want to show the suffering of the Cambodian people," he explained after meeting Chen Ian, 12, whose parents were killed in a Vietnamese attack on their refugee camp. The latest rulers in Phnom-Penh...
Republicans in the race are businessman Clark Abt, Markham H. Lyons, and physician Mildred F. Jefferson, who is scheduled to announce her candidacy next Saturday...
Jefferson, a physician, summarized herconservative stand by saying, "An enlightenedcapitalism is the only hope of the downtrodden,the disposessed, the disadvantaged, and the leftout...