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...assess the political fallout from the abortion conflict, Washington Correspondent Jeanne Saddler interviewed Eleanor Smeal, the pro-abortion president of the National Organization for Women, and Carl Anderson, a legislative aide to pro-life Senator Jesse Helms. Reporter-Researcher Barbara Dolan returned to Albany, where she reported her first abortion story in 1977. "In four years," says Dolan, "abortion politics in Albany has moved from a personal ideological discussion to a major issue in the women's movement and now to a partisan political confrontation." Correspondent Evan Thomas interviewed legal scholars about the constitutional implications of antiabortion legislation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Apr. 6, 1981 | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

...sent a note to Genscher assuring him that he was "outraged" at any implication that the West German was susceptible to Soviet pressure. The fact is, however, that Pipes' views coincide with those of the Administration in most respects. He headed the 1976 "Team B" task force to assess Soviet strategy, which argued that Soviet leaders are pursuing a course of nuclear superiority. The Administration's many voices are all reinforcing the same tough anti-Soviet line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Piping Up from the NSC | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...home owners and $4,000 for renters) to help defray resettlement costs. According to Emmett Moten, Detroit's industrial development director, the city is also purchasing federally owned housing units for Poletowners and offering them mortgages at a bargain 9.5% interest. Detroit hired a professional gerontologist to help assess the impact of the move on the elderly, who make up about half of those to be displaced. So far, 1,154 property owners -about 90% of those affected-have voluntarily sold out to the city. Says Moten of the opposition: "How many mass meetings have been held? Where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Days of Poletown | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...came to the U.S. from his native Poland as a teenager, is a critic of Kissinger's policy of detente, which he said represented a "perilous extreme [of] complete relaxation." Pipes headed "Team B," an outside task force appointed by then CIA Director George Bush to assess Soviet military strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thunderers on the Right | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

...story on President Reagan's sweeping economic proposals, TIME correspondents fanned out across the country to test the mood of citizens about the proposed budget cuts. The goal: to look at some of the programs most affected, examine what they had been achieving at the local level and assess how much they might be missed. Says National Editor John Elson, who edited the story: "We found a wide range of responses, including some that were not anticipated by the Administration. It is already clear that Reagan is going after a whole herd of sacred cows. The battle brewing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Mar. 2, 1981 | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

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