Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...about the possibility of getting additional assistance after Jan. 20, when the Reagan Administration takes power in Washington. Reagan opposed the original Chrysler bailout package, and after Inauguration Day his aides will sit on the board that will determine federal aid. G. William Miller, the outgoing Treasury Secretary, last week held meetings of the Loan Guarantee Board and said he thinks it is "in the national interest" to keep Chrysler alive. The board was expected to consider the company's aid request officially this week...
...with a coin, comb or spoon until contusions appear. The practice seems harmless, says Pediatrician Gentry Yeatman of the Tacoma, Wash., Madigan Army Medical Center, who became familiar with the massage technique during a 1975 stint at a refugee camp in Indiantown Gap, Pa. In a report published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Yeatman warns that most American physicians are unfamiliar with the remedy and apt to mistake its signs for battering. That possibility, as well as doctors' skepticism about the value of coin rubbing, has caused many immigrants to avoid needed medical care...
...packed federal courtroom in Washington last week, the many retired FBI agents on hand chorused an audible sigh of relief. That was when Judge William Bryant announced the sentences for two former top agents convicted on Nov. 6 for their roles in approving illegal break-ins during the Nixon Administration in the early 1970s. Found by a jury to have conspired to violate citizens' Fourth Amendment rights to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures, W. Mark Felt, 67, who had been the FBI's deputy director, and Edward S. Miller, 52, once its chief of domestic intelligence...
Despite the good news last week, the legal battles are far from over for Felt and Miller. They plan to appeal and, more important, they must prepare for a string of civil suits brought by those whose homes were broken into...
...which she uses her own faith to encourage the despairing and disabled. Last year she organized a national "ministry to those who suffer" called Joni and Friends. Based in Woodland Hills, Calif., it offers both spiritual and practical advice to as many as 2,000 letter writers each week...