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...benefits that Nick Brady has made possible." Meanwhile, the U.S. trade deficit is provoking protectionism, which would make it harder for developing countries to work off their debts by exporting their products to a key market. If the U.S. is really going to help, debt reduction must begin at home. Otherwise, the promise of the Brady plan -- along with much of the rest of America's influence abroad -- will be squandered. That, truly, would be unforgivable...
Rarely have the denouncers of censorship been so eager to start practicing it. When a sense of moral disorientation overcomes a society, people from the least expected quarters begin to ask, "Is nothing sacred?" Feminists join reactionaries to denounce pornography as demeaning to women. Rock musician Frank Zappa declares that when Tipper Gore, the wife of Senator Albert Gore from Tennessee, asked music companies to label sexually explicit material, she launched an illegal "conspiracy to extort." A Penthouse editorialist says that housewife Terry Rakolta, who asked sponsors to withdraw support from a sitcom called Married . . . With Children, is "yelling fire...
Under the Oregon plan, which is scheduled to begin in September, the state will sell wagering cards identical to the ones that now are widely sold illegally...
...Center, "there is no consensus on how to talk about frozen embryos." In fact, she observes, the ethical debate is even less focused than the unending rhetorical battle over abortion. Which means, ultimately, that all concerned have a lot of hard thinking to do before legislatures and courts can begin to determine where rights and wrongs begin...
...from South America. That conciliatory line was a far cry from his flat denials in the past of charges by Washington that some Cuban military officials were part of the narcotics pipeline to the U.S. As a first step in his country's crackdown, Castro said, Cuban pilots will begin shooting down any unidentified airplane flying over the island that ignores orders to land...