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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is, finally, a real fear among some Senators that a committee so powerful and fully informed could do profound damage if it sprang any leaks. Last week the Senate Rules Committee voted 5 to 4 against proposals by the Church committee to set up a new watchdog unit to keep an eye on the intelligence agencies. But the fight is not over yet. This month Church plans to carry the struggle to the floor of the Senate, where he feels the younger liberals in both parties may help him carry the day. The "crucial" element of reform, says Church...
Gordon, however, said the Iranian government turned to Harvard "because we're a University, and not a consulting firm, so at least we're the appropriate unit to train people to do things themselves...
Waiting List. Typical is a new minimal-care unit that opened this month at University of Wisconsin Hospitals in Madison. At present its 13 beds in semiprivate rooms are limited to cancer patients who are receiving chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy and must periodically return to the hospital for several days or even weeks. The patients are carefully screened. They must be able to walk about, eat and bathe without assistance, follow their varying schedules for medications, keep their rooms neat and plan their own amusements. In spite of the unit's lack of amenities, its occupancy rate...
Patients and hospital personnel alike are pleased. Relieved from routine work, nurses have more time to give patients counseling and other services that help the patient's wellbeing. Says the unit's director, Dr. Robert Johnson, a cancer specialist: "Patients are strangers when they come in. But then they meet, become friends and do things, like eating together in the cafeteria." They are also freed from the usual military-like hospital restrictions and can even wear street clothes. Such relaxation of rules gives patients an enormous psychological boost. "They don't have the same sense of being...
...OSHA so inefficient? One reason is lack of money. While OSHA'S budget has ballooned from $36 million in fiscal '72 to about $117 million now, the agency's scientific research effort has languished because of underfunding. Average salaries in OSHA'S research unit are about $13,000, equal to the pay of a good Washington secretary and hardly enough to lure top talent...