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...also a complex problem, one that strikes many sensitive nerves. The subject of teenage pregnancy seems to raise almost every politically explosive social issue facing the American public: the battle over abortion rights; contraceptives and the ticklish question of whether adolescents should have easy access to them; the perennially touchy subject of sex education in public schools; controversies about welfare programs; and the precarious state of the black family in America. Indeed, even the basic issue of adolescent sexuality is a subject that makes many Americans squirm...
...make it difficult for teenagers to obtain contraceptives. Since taking office, the President has repeatedly tried to restrict the availability of family-planning services. One-third of the women who seek such services at federally funded clinics are teenagers. In 1983 the Administration further attempted to control teenage access to contraceptives by issuing what quickly became known as the "squeal rule." The regulation required federally funded clinics to notify parents within ten days of prescribing contraceptives to minors. However, the squeal rule was squelched in the courts on the ground that it would have increased unwanted pregnancies and abortions...
...China to become a net exporter of grain. Exports of other goods as diverse as toys and oil are increasing too. Low wages enable China to compete on price with any of the developing countries. And China can offer its trading partners in the industrialized world the lure of access to a potentially gigantic market...
...whose is not. One of the Harvard center's defrocked committeemen, Richard N. Frye, denounced the Spence report as a "whitewash" that ignored the broad effect on scholarly integrity. An academic who bowed out of the conference claimed, "People in the Middle East to whom we must have access would never trust us again...
DIED. Joseph Kraft, 61, syndicated political columnist whose incisive views and access to world leaders made his prose must reading in the nation's capital and beyond for more than 20 years; of heart disease; in Washington. After working at the Washington Post and the New York Times in the 1950s, he became a speech writer for 1960 Presidential Candidate John Kennedy and in 1963 launched his thrice-weekly column. The globe-trotting, indefatigable Kraft wrote with erudite assurance, whether on the Middle East or Middle America. Once a staunch liberal who made Richard Nixon's enemies list, Kraft later...