Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past 18 months, Susan Foss has been paralyzed from the neck down with a spinal tumor. Anywhere else in the world, the pretty, 20-year-old Auckland, New Zealand, housewife would probably be confined to a hospital for the rest of her life. Yet, except for a few hours each day when she undergoes physical and occupational therapy at a nearby hospital, Susan spends all her time at home. Her routine needs are met either by her husband Chris or by a nurse and a home aide who regularly visit the Foss household...
Susan Foss is only one of thousands of seriously ill people who are participating in an extraordinary program of outpatient hospital care. Begun in 1960 to cut rising costs of New Zealand's largely free, womb-to-tomb national health system, the scheme has kept expenses at about 500 a day for each extramural patient in the greater Auckland area (pop. 800,000), compared with the average $41 daily price tag for in-patient care. It has also saved at least 3,000 additional hospital beds, while at the same time making life more bearable for tens of thousands...
...countries that now receive U.S. aid, human rights seem to be alive and well in only 23, barely one-quarter of the total. The 23 states: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Botswana, Canada, Costa Rica, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, France, Greece, Israel (except the occupied territories), Italy, Japan, Malta, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland), Venezuela and West Germany...
Napier, New Zealand...
Christchurch, New Zealand...