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...have been held captive inside Dacca's dingy military cantonment since the first days of the fighting. Seized from Dacca University and private homes and forced into military brothels, the girls are all three to five months pregnant. The army is reported to have enlisted Bengali gynecologists to abort girls held at military installations. But for those at the Dacca cantonment it is too late for abortion. The military has begun freeing the girls a few at a time, still carrying the babies of Pakistani soldiers...
...recession. But in the past three to four months, the rates have been rising again (see chart) and the bounceback has gone high enough to stir worry. Henry Kaufman, a partner of Salomon Bros., warned last week that a continuation of the rise would "eventually abort the economic recovery" by making financing difficult...
...American "dollar imperialism"-notably Germany, which feels that the presence of U.S. troops on its soil is necessary until there is a Soviet withdrawal from Eastern Europe. Reinstituting the tight-money policies and high interest rates of 1968 and 1969 would help the balance of payments, but would also abort U.S. recovery from last year's recession and throw many more Americans out of work...
...grounds for forbidding either a married priesthood or the ordination of women. It described the "charism" of celibacy and the "charism" of the ministry as two separate spiritual gifts not always granted to the same person. In reply, Hartford Archbishop John Whealon recommended at a press conference that bishops "abort the present approach" in favor of "scholarly, disciplined theological research...
Doubts about conventional family life have also led to the growth of another phenomenon: the "single-parent family." No longer fearful about complete ostracism from society, many single girls who become pregnant now choose to carry rather than abort their babies and to support them after birth without rushing pell-mell into what might be a disastrous marriage...