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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Core in fact represents a disturbing move away from the cherished, traditional concept of a "liberal education." The plan's rigid requirements, minimally softed by two late amendments, simply do not allow students enough freedom to gain what they see as a balanced education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Against The Core | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

...when they were divested of vast religious endowments as part of the "white revolution," the Shah's land-reform program. In addition to objecting to the lack of civil liberties, Shar-ietmadari and his colleagues want the Shah to enforce an old constitutional provision that would allow five mullahs to sit as a watchdog committee to see that no laws passed by parliament violate the precepts of the Koran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: The Shah vs. the Shi'ites | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

Although no one seriously thinks that the Shah, who is 58, is about to allow full political freedom, he apparently believes that some liberalization is necessary if the country is to remain stable through any period of succession. (Crown Prince Reza, who becomes 18 this year, is next in line to rule.) Last August, faced with discontent over the skyrocketing cost of living and government-ordered power cutbacks that caused several hundred million dollars in industrial losses, the Shah named Jamshid Amuzegar, 54, the country's tough oil and energy negotiator, as Premier. Amuzegar took swift action against inflation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: The Shah vs. the Shi'ites | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...sale of babies, Noel Keane, the Dearborn attorney who placed the ad for the childless couple, checked with Wayne County juvenile court for an informal opinion. Judge James Lincoln said yes, a volunteer could legally bear a child for the couple to adopt, but no, the law did not allow the payment of fees to the mother for the service. Suddenly the reservoir of surrogates dried up. Explains Keane: "We don't have any of them now. As it turns out, all of them were interested in money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Hiring Mothers | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...spread even farther and faster. Sandol Stoddard's sympathetic new book, The Hospice Movement: A Better Way of Caring for the Dying (Stein & Day; $8.95), is already in its third printing. Next October, at its first annual meeting in Washington, the N.H.O. will push for legislation that will allow insurance payments for hospice care. Zachary Morfogen, N.H.O. chairman, thinks enormous strides have already been made. Says he: "Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to persuade any corporation to include a hospice program under its health and medical plans. The reaction would have been, 'What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Better Way of Dying | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

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