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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is a social problem that has been smoldering for years," says Bowen. At present, Medicare pays hospital bills minus deductibles for the first 60 days only; after that the patient has to pay $130 a day for the next month, then $260 a day for another two months, at which point he is on his own. Patients also have to pay at least 20% of their doctor bills, which often run into many thousands of dollars. About 800,000 of the 28 million Medicare patients every year face bills higher than Bowen's proposed cap of $2,000. Some...
...mystery -- perhaps too much mystery for his slender narratives. In The Stranger (Houghton Mifflin; $15.95), 15 autumnal watercolors all but supplant the story of a nameless figure knocked down by a farmer's pickup. He recuperates at the farm, mute but helpful. As long as the mysterious man is present, the farmer's fields stay green, while all around them leaves turn the color of fire. Winter comes only when the stranger departs. Every year thereafter, the frosty windows bear a Delphic message, SEE YOU NEXT FALL. Van Allsburg the writer could use an interpreter. Van Allsburg the illustrator...
...before a closed meeting of some 40 Soviet writers, General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev discussed his views of Soviet society and his plans to reform it. Last week the New York Times provided the most extensive English translation to date based on notes taken by one of the writers present. Excerpts...
...against firing any more of his aides. "Reagan is about as rigid as I've ever seen him," says a longtime ally outside the Administration. "He doesn't want to throw anyone overboard to satisfy Washington's considered wisdom. He thinks that he is being well served by his present staff." Chief of Staff Donald Regan apparently feels his job is once again secure. Several aides say the haunted, hunted demeanor that Regan displayed in the early days of the controversy receded after a Dec. 11 meeting with the President. Regan "hasn't told anybody what happened in the talk...
Hope for a settlement, which had almost died, surged on news of the E.P.G.'s progress. But those efforts were quickly scuttled by the South African government, which demanded that the ANC renounce violence forever and attacked its bases in three neighboring countries. The E.P.G. soon concluded that "at present there is no genuine intention on the part of the South African government to dismantle apartheid." A glimmering hope for racial peace faded away...