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>> In Austria, 13,000 doctors and 2,500 dentists went on a two-day strike to protest against a new law extending state health insurance to all Austrians. Hundreds of white-smocked physicians paraded through Vienna, shouting slogans. Complaints: 1,200 young doctors are jobless, the state pays only $1 per patient every three months, and doctors average only $240 a month (less overhead).

>> The U.S. gave an official opinion about the much-disputed case of Aikichi Kuboyama, radioman of the Japanese fishing boat Fortunate Dragon, who died last year of hepatitis (with jaundice symptoms) six months after his craft was hit by fallout ashes from the first U.S. experimental H-bomb blast at Bikini. Japanese doctors insisted that the hepatitis had been caused by radiation damage, and Kuboyama became a propaganda hero to the Communists. But, said Assistant U.S. Defense Secretary Frank B. Berry last week, endorsing the opinion of U.S. doctors who had investigated the case, "the man most certainly died of ordinary jaundice," transmitted in a blood transfusion from an infected donor.

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