Word: auge
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Saving money is not the reason knowledgeable couples choose a midwife [Aug. 29]. Personalized care is. Certified nurse-midwives or competent lay midwives always work with physician backup, in case a complication develops. Because midwives manage only normal women, they can spend time with their patients and allow the family to choose the method of delivery...
...black men were arrested on Aug. 18 at a police roadblock near Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape district of South Africa. Under the country's tough Terrorism Act, one of them was detained for questioning-incommunicado-in Port Elizabeth. On Sept. 5, according to police statements, the prisoner went on a hunger strike, and six days later he was transferred to Pretoria Central Prison. One night last week a warder looked through a peephole in the prisoner's cell and saw him "lying very still." A doctor was called to certify the death...
...calling a civil war between their government and a small army of nihilistic urban terrorists bent on disrupting public order. Since April, Chief Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback has been gunned down on the streets of Karlsruhe and Banker Jürgen Ponto slain inside his estate near Frankfurt (TIME, Aug. 15). A report by the Bundeskriminalamt (Federal Criminal Office) estimates that some 1,200 persons in West Germany could become active and dangerous at any time," and an additional 6,000 might give the terrorists "more than verbal support " No wonder that traditionally law-abiding West Germans are clamoring loudly...
Many more mills may close-and much earlier-if the strike of 15,000 iron-ore workers that began Aug. 1 drags on. Though the industry is governed by a much praised agreement that bans strikes over "economic" issues, the miners contend that their demand for incentive pay (mainly bonuses for exceeding production norms) is a "local" issue, about which strikes are permitted. For now, mills can feed their blast furnaces with stockpiled ore, but if the strike continues another three or four months-and it could-they would start to run short...
...conflict of interests prompted Senator Abraham Ribicoff to complain on July 25 that Lance was being "smeared from one end of the country to the other," a complaint that Ribicoff later retracted. The Times tried to catch up with Safire, but produced a stream of speculative, melodramatic stories. On Aug. 15, for instance, the Times described how relations had cooled between Carter and Lance, but failed to mention that the President had invited his Budget Director over to play tennis only the day before...