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Because the abortion issue presents controversial moral questions, we feel that the decision is best left up to the individual, as the Supreme Court first ruled in 1975. Those who have moral objections to the act of abortion have every right to ask that their tax money not be used by Medicaid in this...
...youngsters ranges between 50 and 70; in the U.S., people with such scores are classified as mentally retarded. Says Irna Marilia Kaden, director of Rio's child welfare agency: "A person with psychological disorders and mental impairment, a sick person-a sick, fragile population-cannot act as an agent of development. And what's worse, he is a dead weight to be sustained by those who are healthy." For a nation whose population is expected to increase to 1 billion in less than a century, that weight may be too heavy to bear...
Maybe so, but last week Silverman announced that this series too would do a vanishing act for a whole month after its premiere. If it returns, it will be in a new and tougher time slot (Sundays at 10 p.m.), when it will be opposite Kaz and ABC movies. Says one NBC insider: "Silverman has little hope for Lifeline; he's taking the coward's way of introducing a show." So much for taking chances...
...efforts of environmentalists, the BWCA has long been roiled by Evinrudes and Johnsons. Even after it was included in the 1964 National Wilderness Preservation Act-making it by far the largest region of its kind east of the Rockies-logging and motorboating continued under an amendment sponsored by the late Senator Hubert Humphrey. But lumbering has since been voluntarily suspended and will be permanently outlawed under legislation slowly making its way through the political thickets of Capitol Hill. So environmentalists are now concentrating their ire on the remaining target: motorized recreational vehicles...
...against the excesses of recent years. "The huge financial rewards you've received . . . were undreamed of when we were in our primes," the elders wrote. "How have you repaid it? By debasing tennis-its standards, its traditions, its reputation-and jeopardizing its future . . . Tennis must clean up its act...