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...Indian Health Service (IHS) is a new tool of war for the American government. It was established under treaties to complement existing native medicine and to protect Indian culture from the new diseases brought by the Europeans. IHS has proved hopelessly inadequate for Indian needs. Government control became neglect of Indian people, creating widespread health problems. As the Treaty Council's Genocide Document, submitted to the conference, states, "Some 38 percent of Native children were found to have serious hearing handicaps by age four. The death rate for tuberculosis is four times as high among Indians as among non-Indians...
Slava will get ten additional musicians?mainly strings?to bring the N.S.O. to a full complement of 106. He knows that the orchestra has never been top flight, but he is eager to make it so and dreams of the day when he might take it to Moscow to show it off. He is convinced? long with many of his musicians?that what the orchestra needs most is a massive infusion of confidence...
...film she ever did; her Hildy Mason is just what the movie stereotype of the street-wise professional woman with romanticism buried,...breathing, deep down inside should be. And Cary Grant, as the editor who has already gone a romantic round one with this woman reporter, is a perfect complement; his witty rejoinders and aw-shucks mugging are irresistible, but you know he'd be unfaithful again in a minute. And not that this film needs anything more to make it a gem, but Howard Hawks' recreation and direction of a late thirties newspaper crew is perfection...
...about the eventual possibility of breaking the current deadlock. While he is correct in his assumption that the unilateral efforts must come first, simultaneous advances should be sought at the bargaining table. And although he almost admits this early on, he never stresses the importance of negotiation as a complement to unilateral initiatives...
Donovan will also be gauging the play of highly touted freshman Glenn Alexander and Brett Johnson. Alexander and Johnson are expected to complement returning lettermen Spence Fitzgibbons, Dave Paxton and Jim Dales, who along with Vik formed the nucleus of last year's team...