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...Michael Gooen's editorial "Real Life" (December 5), in seeking to convince those opposed to abortion to abandon their political and legal efforts, has both completely misunderstood the pro-life movement and has failed to examine carefully the political and ethical dimensions of the abortion tragedy...
Given the chill of the past four years, it comes as a relief that the two sides are willing to sit down to talk at all. President Reagan had to ignore some of his own harsh rhetoric; the Soviets had to abandon their vow not to return to the negotiating table until the U.S. pulled its missiles out of Europe. Thus, it is no wonder that the world will be watching, and hoping, when Secretary of State George Shultz joins Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Geneva next week to renew nuclear arms-control talks after a yearlong hiatus...
...Latin went into a slump with the Sputnik era, with its concentration on science and technology," she recalls. And she says, "Then came the permissive age," the 1960s and early 1970s, when demands for so-called relevancy in course content pushed many schools to reduce or abandon classical studies and language instruction...
...factions that confuse the context in which they fight. What all of these issues cry out for is not simplistic slogans like "Ban the Bomb" or "Right to Life," but a vast reworking of the way technological change brings itself to bear on society. The point is not to abandon the condemn/condone way of dealing with science ethics issues, but to see its inadequacy, to recognize that the rapidly changing and overwhelming new powers of science radically overturn the way we make ethical choices and public policies. The Task Force on Organ Transplants is a step in this direction...
...financial condition forced it to break that promise. The Chicago-based company decided to sell its agricultural division for $430 million to Houston's Tenneco, an energy conglomerate. This means that Harvester, the descendant of a company founded by Cyrus McCormick, the inventor of the mechanical reaper, will abandon its original line of business. The divestiture will let Harvester concentrate on its profitable truck-building operation. Tenneco will merge Harvester's tractor line with its struggling J.I. Case farm-equipment division. By closing plants like Harvester's giant Farmall factory in Rock Island, Ill., Tenneco hopes...