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...return, many Europeans believe that the U.S. can offer Europe much beyond the shield of monetary stability and military security. As Belgian Businessman Alec Le Vernoy observed: "There is a real chance for Nixon to help us start working together in Europe ?not only in policy matters, but in our economic life, our technology, in science and business. There is much for us to do together. Maybe he can help us toward agreement on common purposes, and then we can move forward toward meeting them." Undramatic as that may be, it is the aim of Nixon's first...
...Itself The Administration has given the opponents of Sentinel ammunition by shifting its justification for immediate deployment of the weapon. Originally, Sentinel was billed by the Johnson Administration as a "thin" shield against a possible attack by the relatively small and primitive missile force that the Chinese are expected to have in five years or so. Then the argument was introduced that the ABM might protect the nation against an accidental missile firing from anywhere abroad. As the Soviets continue to increase their offensive missile force, the thin Sentinel began to appear not as an end in itself, but only...
Swiss police said later that the four had arrived ten days before, and had destroyed their passports, evidently to shield Arab governments from blame. They will face a battery of charges in Swiss courts. As for Rahamim, who was also arrested, his expected plea of self-defense will turn on whether or not the slain terrorist was disarmed before he was shot-a point the Swiss were still investigating...
What Blue Cross will reimburse varies from state to state, and within states, according to what plan the subscribing group has chosen. Some Blue Cross plans in the West cover in-hospital doctors' bills, a function generally reserved in the East for Blue Shield. Whatever its limitations, Blue Cross was such a success that commercial insurance companies soon tried to emulate...
...done in a hospital, her doctor enters some meaningless diagnosis such as leucorrhea or dysmenorrhea (which practically every woman has now and then) and plunks her in the hospital for two days. The insurance pays virtually all the hospital bill and, if the family has coverage of the Blue Shield type, the doctor's bill as well. To Mark Berke, director of San Francisco's Mount Zion Hospital, the system "puts a premium on being a horizontal rather than a vertical patient." Says Surgeon General Stewart: "For episodic care of the middle-income class, the Blues do a reasonably good...