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Toward that end, Colorado's law clearly states: "Social services shall be made available in an effort to prevent further abuses, safeguard and enhance the welfare of such children, and preserve family life wherever possible." Colorado's doctors report to the police, but the police then report to county welfare departments, which handle the problem on a nonpunitive basis. Mandatory reports also go to child protective agencies under 1964 laws in New York, Kentucky, Michigan, Massachusetts and Rhode Island...
...someone inside might suffer from the "martini effect" all the controls are located on the outside and manned by highly skilled personnel breathing air at ordinary pressures. Elaborate instrumentation with a variety of fail-safe mechanisms delivers medical gases under extra pressure to the doctors inside. As a further safeguard, the four chambers at the Hennepin Hospital are all equipped with closed-circuit TV, so that monitors on the outside can watch everything that the operating team does on the inside, and sound an alert if normal operating procedures should be violated...
...King Paul and I," she wrote, "lived our whole life inspired only by our unselfish love for our people and our family. After the cruel loss of my husband, it is with these happy memories that I wish to live, quietly and in peace. Yet in my desire to safeguard my dignity as Queen of the Hellenes for 17 years and as Queen Mother now, I feel it necessary to ask you not to proceed with the government's already announced intention to grant me a personal allowance. I wish to add that I do not intend to leave...
Prince Norodom Sihanouk has long demanded that Britain and the U.S. come up with a plan to guarantee Cambodia's neutrality and safeguard its frontiers from archenemies Thailand and South Viet Nam. But when no proposal met his approval, Sihanouk became convinced of a Western plot to partition his nation. Last week, Sihanouk's obsessive suspicion of the West cued a violent riot in Pnompenh which resulted in the sacking of the British and U.S. embassies and spotlighted Cambodia's alarming drift toward Communism...
However, the government's financial position in higher education is now irreversible, he declared. To safeguard against "irrelevant political intrusions," the British have established a University Grants Committee, a non-political group which allots government funds, he said. Robbins reported that his study committee had recommended continued use of such "buffer committees" in allocating new state subsidies...