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...secret to Reagan's appeal, which is also the source of much criticism, is that he relates far more easily to the plight of individual citizens than to social problems in the abstract. "Letters from someone who has finally resorted to writing to you because they think all else has failed, and then be able to solve their problem and getting something done is, I think, one of the great rewards this job has to offer." As an actor in Hollywood, he recalls, he was shown a letter by his father from a girl who said she was dying...
...plight of the stricken gave rise to tensions between U.S. and Soviet doctors. Guskova said last week that the Gale team, which included two UCLA colleagues and an Israeli specialist, was unaware of some recent diagnostic advances. Said she: "That's what comes of self-reliance. It's a pity. They are excellent specialists and could have been of much more help." Replied Gale, whose group assisted in 13 of the 19 bone-marrow transplants that were administered to the sickest victims: "We have worked together very successfully." However, eleven patients who underwent the risky marrow transplants have reportedly died...
...year when he opened up discussions on the alcohol policy to undergraduates and the Undergraduate Council. Throughout the year he went to council meetings and answered questions. He went to dinner at the houses and even lived at the Radcliffe Quad, as if in solidarity with the Quadlings' plight...
...suasion of Mrs. Thatcher that she had to deal with Mr. Mugabe in Zimbabwe. He should get enormous credit; they were absolutely against him," says MacFarquhar. "A minor but important human achievement was persuading Margaret Thatcher to accept the boat people" after visiting Hong Kong to guage their plight...
Shcharansky, who came to symbolize the plight of Soviet Jewry, told Dershowitz that the decision of American activists to focus attention on his case saved his life...