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...lowest-cost health care for Medi-Cal (Medicaid) recipients. The law will permit private health insurers to do the same for their subscribers. As a result, next year California Medi-Cal patients may be restricted in choosing their doctors and hospitals. William A. Guy, who administers the Medi-Cal watchdog program, sums up his task bluntly. Says he: "Hospitals are a major part of the cost. The issue is how to hold them accountable...
...tricked Siegel into confessing. It destroyed tapes crucial to Siegel's case and reneged on its promise of legal immunity. As a result, attorney Dershowitz fought to exclude any evidence that had resulted from Siegel's coerced confession. Without it, the government had no case. Hence, defense attorney as watchdog...
DIED. Louis Lyons, 84, distinguished newspaper journalist, radio essayist, director of Harvard University's Nieman Foundation and vigilant watchdog of the American press; of cancer; in Cambridge, Mass. Lyons became a first-rank reporter and editorial writer at the Boston Globe, and in 1938 he earned a place in the first group of Nieman fellows, who are chosen to spend a year away from their beats studying subjects of their choice at Harvard. One year later the genteel, pipe-smoking Bostonian became the Nieman's curator, and during the next 25 years made the fellowships the most eminent...
Last week, the President of Harvard's Board of Overseers--who should serve as suspicious watchdog of administration policies rather than as an accomplice--showed he has been recruited into the stalling maneuvers. Herbert P. Wilkins '51, a Massachusetts State Supreme Court Justice, blatantly contradicted a public statement he made last year promising the release of a long-awaited report on all facets of "friction" between Harvard and the city of Cambridge...
What now is baffling the coalition, whose approximately 50 members are still committed, is how to shift its role. Once a protest intent on blocking construction, it now must become a relentless watchdog as MATEP becomes a reality. They talk of persuading residents to agree to regular monitoring of their health, particularly their respiratory conditions. But Ploss hasn't "the vaguest idea" what action, if any, the coalition will take in the coming months. "People are talking about selling their houses and moving. Most of them are the ones who have looked closely into the plant," she adds...