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Britain's National Health Service also has deteriorated. With a staff of 1 million, the NHS will spend $33 billion this year, but its patient waiting lists are the longest in the European Community. As many as 700,000 people are waiting for surgery, some of them have been for years. Budget cuts have closed 20 hospitals in the London area alone. The government points out, however, that spending on the health service has actually increased 2 1/2 times in the past eight years. The government has already set aside $83 million for a two- year program to treat more...
...attorney who helps run a Chicago social-service agency, McPherson has accumulated two months of paid sick leave and vacation time. She plans to spend an additional four months working part time, but then she must return to her usual full schedule. So for several months she has been exhaustively researching the local child-care scene. The choices, she has learned, are disappointingly few. Only two day-care centers in Chicago accept infants; both are expensive, and neither appeals. "With 20 or 30 babies, it's probably all they can do to get each child's needs met," says McPherson...
...state's E.T. (employment and training) program provides her with vouchers for day care in the public housing complex where she lives. "Child care is an absolute precondition if one is serious about trying to help people lift themselves out of poverty," insists Governor Dukakis. Though the state will spend an estimated $27 million on day care under the E.T. program this year -- and a total of $101 million on all child-care related services -- it claims to have saved $121 million in welfare costs last year alone. Next month the state will begin a pilot program that will...
...companies are in the forefront. Merck & Co., a large pharmaceutical concern based in Rahway, N.J., invested $100,000 seven years ago to establish a day-care center in a church less than two miles from its headquarters. Parents pay $550 a month for infants and $385 for toddlers. Many spend lunch hours with their children. "I can be there in four minutes," says Steven Klimczak, a Merck corporate-finance executive whose three-year-old daughter attends the center. "It's very reliable, and that's important in terms of getting your job done...
Another potential problem is that Pakistan's original request is starting to look disingenuous, if only because the radar planes may be of little help. Afghan and Soviet MiGs fly toward Pakistan's border frequently but cross the border less often. Even then, they typically spend only a few minutes in Pakistani airspace. Says a retired Pakistani officer: "Our air force cannot scramble its F-16s every time Afghan warplanes head east." The Afghans have the option of relying more on terror bombing, or on cross-border shelling, which alone has caused several deaths in recent weeks and forced...