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...hearing their offer. Even if pro basketball had been my first choice. I never would have accepted their offer--it wasn't even in the ballpark. This coupled with my desire to go to law school caused me to turn down the contract and that led to the subsequent breakdown in communications." Kiki recalled...
...life movement, which has as many as 10 million followers, is a loosely knit coalition of religious and New Right groups, plus individuals who feel a deep moral commitment to protecting unborn human life. Legalized abortion, they believe, not only contributes to a breakdown of traditional family values, but is tantamount to genocide. Their ultimate goal is a "Human Life Amendment" to the Constitution that would reverse Roe vs. Wade. The amendment would simply guarantee the right to life to the unborn from the moment of fertilization. A shorter-term strategy-so far largely successful-has been to halt federal...
...major reason for the growth of the pro-life movement is the concern of parents who feel that free and easy access to abortion is a serious threat to the breakdown of family values. Says David O'Steen, director of Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life: "Clearly, abortion as a means of birth control is going to encourage sexual activity. It is the ultimate out for sexual irresponsibility. A teen-ager can have an abortion and her parents will never hear of it." About 40% of females who turn 14 this year are expected to become pregnant while they...
...down from 70% a decade ago. Some 20,000 U.M.W. members have been laid off. Though both sides are prepared to start bargaining again, no talks have been scheduled, and the ugly mood that has marked previous strikes seems to be on the rise. Just the word of the breakdown in negotiations last week sparked wildcat strikes by 8,000 miners in the East and Midwest. As Norvel Wagner, a U.M.W. field representative in West Virginia, put it, "It's itchy feet...
...assault marked the first use of force by police since Poland's labor troubles began last July-and the first serious breakdown in the tenuous recent truce between the government and Solidarity. The nation's workers reacted angrily. Lech Walesa and other Solidarity leaders, who had been trying to stave off strikes and work stoppages elsewhere, rushed to Bydgoszcz to comfort the injured and demand retribution against the police. Addressing an overflow meeting of outraged unionists, Walesa alternately stirred his listeners with attacks on the Communist apparatus and urged them not to react too rashly. "Those bandits...