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...coalition also released a report in May which praised University Health Services for agreeing to revise its medical protocol and to train mental health staff to help homosexual patients...
...would the Soviets sit still for such a delay? Time is running out on the protocol limiting American cruise missiles that accompanies the SALT II Treaty. The protocol expires at the end of 1981, four years before the treaty itself. When Leonid Brezhnev signed SALT II at the Vienna summit last June, he was assuming that it would be ratified before the end of 1979. That would have left two years for the superpowers to negotiate permanent constraints on cruise missiles in the next round of negotiations, SALT...
...however, with SALT II on the shelf, the Soviets must decide whether they can live with the near certainty that the protocol will expire well before its temporary cruise missile limitations can be permanently extended. Under these changed circumstances, SALT as a whole becomes less valuable to the Soviets, since one of their main purposes is to use the negotiations to impede the American cruise missile program...
Inevitably, some anguished cancer victims will suspect that interferon is being hoarded for use by favored patients. But, says one doctor, "the sad and brutal fact is that if my own mother didn't meet the protocol, she could not get interferon today...
Staff members undergo "desensitization" programs--training staff to respond by following established hospital protocol in dealing with alleged cases of domestic abuse. After providing necessary medical attention, the staff also provides counseling services and channels for immediate legal action...