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...Expand and strengthen the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Still woefully weak, it needs more and better staff, more money, more creative leadership, and more support from the public and Congress. It has an economics section where, with sufficient public pressure, much of the needed research could be carried out or contracted...
...therapy is begun: a therapist asks the patient to lift his arm as if to put a spoon to his mouth. Most likely he cannot complete the movement, so the therapist (usually a woman) gently helps him. At times she gets him to push his hand against hers to strengthen the muscles. Hemiplegic patients stay at the institute an average of three to six months. "By the time they leave." says Hofkosh. "we like them to be able to walk at home and take care of their basic needs...
June Treaty? But fortnight ago at Turin, De Gaulle won support for his proposal from Italy's Premier Amintore Fanfani. In return, De Gaulle conceded specifically that: 1) a unified Europe will seek to strengthen, not undermine, the Atlantic Alliance; 2) heads of government will have no authority over the Common Market's economic affairs; 3) other existing supranational institutions, such as Europe's Coal & Steel Community, will remain independent...
...ultimate ideal of supranational European union. Britain's Lord Privy Seal. Edward Heath, last week resoundingly reaffirmed the primary concern of his government - and of the West : ''We must make it clear beyond all doubt that the object of our common policy is to defend and strengthen those liberties for which the Atlantic Alliance is the indispensable shield...
...without good reason that he possesses a true political genius notwithstanding the fact that one would not wish one's sister to marry the gentleman. If Mr. Schwartz is to continue his perspicacious analysis of the problems of the South, however, it is to be hoped that he will strengthen his presentation by a more judicious appraisal of the validity of the assertions which he makes concerning religious bodies in the South...