Our pending in Congress that would aid mental health efforts around the country, but she also stressed that community and volunteer efforts are essential.
Strong, healthy, very large mental health association, an army of volunteers in every community in our country, working with government, in partnership with government, to care for those who need help.
We Americans have always believed in doing for ourselves, in identifying needs and then organizing to meet them.
In fact, many of the functions of government today, at all levels, schools, libraries, hospitals, help for the old, the needy, the unemployed, many of these efforts began as private efforts by volunteers.
Rosalind Carter called for nationwide efforts to deinstitutionalize a mentally disabled and to eliminate what she calls psychiatric ghettos.
Wendy McDonald, Region 2 News.
The 12-day-old hostage crisis in Iran threatened to extend into next month when Islamic leader Ayatollah Khomeini said he would remain in seclusion for the next 20 days.
The sources said Khomeini is suffering from fatigue and what they call a brief illness.
Iranian officials say they're trying to win the release of women, blacks and non-American hostages held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, but the militant Muslims who hold the embassy say only the Ayatollah can decide who goes free.
Arab League members, fearing an economic war with the United States, today rejected a proposal by Libya that they join in retaliation against President Carter's freeze of Iranian assets in American banks.
Addressing an AFL-CIO convention, President Carter lashed out at the embassy's seizure as an act of terrorism, demanding what he called patience and...