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...just an "inexcusable mistake," as chief of staff Leon Panetta called it last week. It began, in this version, with a rogue computer program that produced the erroneous Secret Service list of people whom Marceca investigated, beginning in August 1993. For each name, he sent an unsigned request form to the FBI, which responded with a confidential report. Both Marceca and his FBI contacts apparently failed to question the accuracy of the list he was working from, and his supervisor, Livingstone, failed to supervise the exercise. Marceca says he plowed down the alphabetical list from A to G and passed...
...TIME/CNN poll of 1,004 Americans conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners found that 82% believed in the healing power of prayer and 64% thought doctors should pray with those patients who request it. Yet even today few doctors are comfortable with that role. "We physicians are culturally insensitive about the role of religion," says David Larson, noting that fewer than two-thirds of doctors say they believe in God. "It is very important to many of our patients and not important to lots of doctors...
Wilfrid Sheed does a disservice to objectivity in discussing the celebrity of Dr. Jack Kevorkian [ESSAY, June 3]. The right-to-die movement in America today aims to end suffering at the request of the sufferer, and to compare it with Hitler's euthanasia ignores the obvious difference: "at the request of the sufferer." If the person suffering is able to think and communicate his or her wishes, that is a different scenario from the issue relating to Hitler in war. DAN CARLSON Pennsville, New Jersey Via E-mail...
...first place. Air Force regulations permit military planes carrying VIPs into East European airports like Dubrovnik's to land only by daylight and in clear weather. The Air Force's European Command had applied for a waiver of these regulations. Safety officers at the Pentagon denied the request, but the 86th Airlift Wing apparently disregarded the denial. On high-profile vip flights, comments an Air Force officer, "the pressure to accomplish the mission on time is unspoken but great." Last week's firings should set up a much needed counterpressure...
...This bill...is basically a request that I oppose the compromise announced by then-acting president Carnesale," Lewis said...