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Barsh said that Canada is trying to abolish Indian reserves, eliminate special legal status for Indians, and terminate special educational and economic assistance...
...wedding age to 18 for men and to 15 for women and sets up village conciliation boards for mending broken marriages. Such red tape will deprive the Moslem male of his traditional right to shed a wife simply by declaring "I divorce thee" three times. The plan would not abolish the ancient custom of bride price, which often amounts to ten or 20 prime cows. But it would ease the young man's burden by permitting him to pay his in-laws on the installment plan after the wedding...
...their century-old abortion laws. Even so, the new laws have hardly made an appreciable dent in the number of illegal abortions, estimated to be as high as 1,500,000 annually. Dissatisfied with what they regard as tokenism, abortion reformers have since mounted campaigns in several states to abolish all penalties for abortions, provided they are performed by licensed physicians in approved hospitals. Their first success came in Hawaii (TIME, March 9), followed by another in Maryland, where the legislature has sent Governor Marvin Mandel a bill similar to the one passed in Hawaii...
...abolish all liability insurance and let each accident victim fight it out at the scene? Once we abandon the doctrines of negligence and guilt, it doesn't really matter who wins these street fights, and we could all save a lot of money...
Peterson's force would abolish the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID), which now manages most of the assistance programs, and put U.S. aid funds into a pool managed jointly by the U.S. and other major international contributors, notably Western Europe and Japan. The underdeveloped countries getting aid would also have a bigger voice in deciding how the new multilateral pie would be divided. ''Only a genuinely cooperative program can gain the necessary long-term public support in the U.S.," the report contended...