Word: arizonas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...healthy and happily married Arizona woman, mother of four children, last week went to court to ask approval for an illegal act: getting an abortion. Her fifth child, she fears, might be hideously deformed as a result of her taking the sleeping pill thalidomide...
...Arizona law, like that in virtually all the states, prohibits abortion for any other reason than to save the mother's life. Both state and county law officers said that if the operation were performed on Mrs. Finkbine, they would have to prosecute all parties involved-including the physicians. Possible punishment: two to five years in prison...
...Arizona's copper towns, a long strike tears families apart...
Today the two couples no longer speak. Their friendship has been rent by a bitter three-month-old strike against Phelps Dodge that has divided friends and kin throughout Morenci, Clifton and a string of other copper company towns in southern Arizona...
Strikes have punctuated life in Arizona's copper-mining towns for over a century. An epitaph on an old tombstone in Morenci reads, KILLED BY A SCAB. But this strike is different, redolent of the new bargaining climate in the U.S. that has put some unions on the defensive. In the past, when even the coalition of 13 unions at Phelps Dodge, led by the United Steelworkers of America, routinely went out on strike at the expiration of a three-year contract, the company would close down operations until a new deal had been negotiated. This year, racked...