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DURING THE SUMMER months, the American press was filled with premature praise for the role of Western diplomacy in bringing about the tentative accord between SWAPO and South Africa. Lost amidst all the kudos was a frank discussion of the West's ongoing undermining of U.N. efforts to force South Africa to leave the territory it illegally occupies...
...MASSACHUSETTS legislature's decision to restrict Medicaid funds for non-therapeutic abortions was a sad and difficult one, as must be any decision that effectively works against the social and economic rights of the poor. Nonetheless, we believe it was the best one possible, amidst a sea of agonizing alternatives. By cutting off funds, the legislature went as far as it legally could toward accepting a compelling moral argument: that the destruction of life--or what, given the lack of a proper biological definition, may well be life--is an unacceptable price to pay for the attainment of admittedly desirable...
...arrived in Belgrade early in the week amidst rumors that his visit to Rumania had prompted a Soviet protest to Bucharest, which for all its friendliness to Peking still has important military, economic and political ties to the Soviet Union. Nonetheless, with maliciously anti-Soviet timing, Hua touched down at the airport outside the Yugoslav capital on the tenth anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Lest anyone fail to get his point, he made it clear that night. At a state dinner given by Yugoslavia's venerable Field Marshal Josip Broz Tito, 86, Hua alluded to fears that...
...have read his name in The New York Times or the Boston Globe this past year, amidst the flood of publicity that Harvard has been receiving. He is the one and only Derek Bok--a former dean of the Harvard Law School, and a graduate of that school and Stanford College. Now, according to a recent murder/mystery novel, President Bok will soon join the Supreme Court, thus leaving his position to President Cheever. This may be fiction, but Bok has hinted in the past that he may spend less that ten years as President. He took over...
...sturdy spinster who moves to a Welsh mining town and opens a school. The man in the director's chair is close friend George Cukor, 79, the grand old master who guided Hepburn through nine previous films. For the crew it's an ideal summer frolic amidst flint hedges and yellow gladioli, and it leads to a little pastoral reflection. Says Hepburn: "First God made England, Ireland and Scotland. That's when he corrected his mistakes and made Wales...