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...medicine, from Harry Truman's program for compulsory national health insurance to John Kennedy's $1 billion medical-care-for-the-aged plan. As taken over by President Johnson and incorporated into the Great Society, medicare seems a cinch for passage this year by the hugely Democratic 89th Congress. But the A.M.A. is determined, in the words of one top official, "to go down fighting." Meeting last week in Chicago, the A.M.A. House of Delegates endorsed an all-out national drive against medicare, along with an equally all-out push for its own program-which it calls "eldercare...
...89th Congress had been in session only three weeks, yet both houses had already buckled down to work on bills of major substance. It was a surprising show of legislative haste. But President Johnson has handed this year's hugely Democratic Congress a bursting-from-the-seams legislative program, and he is goading his Capitol Hill leaders to get things going early...
Signs. This might indicate that the President will have his own absolute way with the 89th Congress. But Congress traditionally has a way of displaying a mind of its own, no matter what its party breakdown. And last week there were a couple of signs that the 89th may not be too different...
...Dehler warned that Germany was being "sacrificed" to Atlantic policy. Christian Democrat Parliamentary Leader Rainer Barzel cried that Germany might "go it alone" if pushed too far by its allies. Erhard himself was reported upset and worried, and amid celebrations last week for former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's 89th birthday, met with his Cabinet to discuss the "new situation...
There may have been Congressmen who griped at the brief 92 days between sessions-but not Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell. When the 89th Congress convened last week, Powell was finally free to go home. Such are the paradoxes of being the House's No. 1 fugitive from justice...