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Predictably, some of these ombudsman appointments are little more than token responses to the rising spirit of consumerism. Often the individuals are volunteers without any authority to act. But many hospitals are sincerely searching for ways to improve relations with their patients. New York's Mount Sinai Hospital has a staff of five to deal with its patients' nonmedical needs; Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital of Chicago has hired a patient representative to deal with the problems of those using its clinic and emergency room. Few institutions, however, have gone as far as New York Hospital...
...Egyptians insist on at least a token presence of their troops on the east bank of the canal, and the U.S. is believed to have suggested to the Israelis that they pull back to the Mitla Pass, some 25 miles from the canal. There were further reports last week that in return for such a withdrawal, the Nixon Administration was considering a plan to sell Israel about 50 Phantom jets and 60 Skyhawks over the next three to four years...
...itself, can become a junior partner. What fierce, cannibalistic love scenes we stage in films and even in private lives! Such Who's Afraid of Virginia foolishness! Such ripping and tearing! Such savage, winner-takes-all grappling! The fistfights in Five Easy Pieces seem like friendly interludes of token mayhem compared with the knockdown and drag-out lovemaking. Not the least among the crimes of angry art is that it makes sentimental art (Love Story, etc.) the polar alternative...
...behest of the State Department. That seems especially likely in view of the fact that the U.S. is tinkering with a proposal-oral -much like Bergus' for solving the Suez impasse. It calls for Israel to pull back about 35 miles in Sinai, for Egyptian civilians and a token military force to cross over the canal but to move only 15 miles into the peninsula, and for a formal ceasefire. Neither Israel nor Egypt has seized on the plan, however, and one Israeli Cabinet member said last week of the negotiations: "They are dead but not buried...