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Miscellaneous. While a 1973 decision allowing abortions still stands, many poor women will be unable to afford them, now that the court has upheld a federal law cutting off Medicaid funding of abor tions except in very limited situations (Harris vs. McRae). That decision followed by two weeks one that allowed the patenting of new manufactured forms of life, which should spawn even more laboratory activity in a field whose boundaries can only be imagined (Diamond vs. Chakrabarty). A federal regulation tightening the limits on how much benzene vapor can be in the air in work places was challenged...
Local and national speakers will discuss NEWCO's demands for free abor-tion, no forced sterilization, free 24-hour community controlled child care centers, equal employment and equal pay opportunity, equal access to education and job training, and the repeal of all laws regarding private sexual behavior...
...Germer, 85, German-born labor pioneer, who started in the Illinois coal fields at age eleven, had worked his way up to the United Mine Workers vice presidency when John L. Lewis tapped him in 1935 to organize the Detroit auto workers as Lewis lormed the C.I.O., incidentally giving abor one of its leading lights when he lired Walter Reuther as an organizer; of cancer; in Rockford...
...Last month the Dafias were growing restive once again over a fancied favoritism shown by the Indian government in granting military protection to their hated neighbors, the Galongs. With the British no longer on hand to practice their "atrocities," India sent a detachment of 23 Assam Riflemen into the Abor Hills to talk things over in a friendlier way. The Dafias welcomed the visitors and their 150 Galong porters with effusive cordiality and set to work clearing a wide space in the forest on which they could pitch their tents. The Indians met kindness with kindness and began passing...
...chances are fair, nothing more. Our improvement has been very great, but it must not be forgotten that our inferiority to Princeton and Yale was likewise great, and that much abor had to be accomplished and put us in a class which could compete with these. This has been accomplished. Everything which is learned from now on ought to make our chances even of winning at least one of the games. We can look forward to this, and from all appearances there is little to make us discouraged for our contest with Yale, even if beaten by Princeton...
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