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Decisions, decisions. At this rate, I'll probably end up resorting to the old standby white coat and stethoscope. Maybe this year, I'll sew the initials "UHS" on the breast pocket. Now that would be scary...
...most controversial young corporations in the country, has long searched for a whole district that would put its methods to the test. Under the five-year contract, which starts immediately, E.A.I. will pay the bills, buy supplies, fix buildings, shape curriculum, train teachers and, when it's all over, pocket half of every dollar, if any, it saves the city of Hartford. The company said it would immediately pump $1.6 million into fixing the most ramshackle buildings, and another $14 million into new technology. The board remains in final control, and can cancel the contract on 90 days' notice...
Military officials on the Pentagon's Joint staff in Washington thought that some pilots shot down over Laos were being held captive and could be at the camp. Two months after receiving W/1's report, the Pentagon began preparing Operation Pocket Change, a top-secret plan to retrieve the airmen. It was the only postwar rescue the U.S. government ever considered in Southeast Asia. The leads that Americans might be at the camp "were the best we ever got," says retired Vice Admiral Jerry Tuttle, the man in charge of the Defense Intelligence Agency's hunt for POWS...
Operation Pocket Change was supposed to be one of the Pentagon's most secret missions. But the Joint Chiefs of Staff did not want to repeat the mistake made in the Desert One fiasco when senior Pentagon officials kept too many key officers in the dark. Tuttle says he was ordered by the Chiefs to expand the circle of officers informed about this operation. On March 18, members of the congressional POW task force were briefed on the Nhommarath sightings. The result was a flood of leaks to the press. Colonel Ronald Duchin, then head of the Pentagon's news...
...Progressive taxation is important to pursue . . .the idea for each of us to give a share for the common good," says former Cambridge mayor Alice K. Wolf. "Ninety-two percent of Massachusetts will benefit from the point of view of their own pocket-books...