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...doctor's unflinching account, published anonymously in the Jan. 8 Journal of the American Medical Association, was the first such confession ever to appear in a U.S. medical journal. With stark candor and dramatic detail, it spotlighted one of U.S. medicine's most controversial issues: the extent to which American doctors commit mercy killings. The report has prompted a storm of protest and a flurry of letters to J.A.M.A., most of which were from physicians who condemned the resident's behavior as both illegal and unethical. New York City Mayor Edward Koch was so horrified by the J.A.M.A. account that...
...flakes with skim milk: good for what ails the bloated body politic, but not the thing a liberal Iowa Democrat is likely to choose over the buttered and honeyed comfort food that others are promising. If Babbitt advances, it will mark an unlikely triumph of ideas over imagery, of candor over pandering...
...Clerical Directory, a biennial reference book of statistics and short clergy biographies. But the reason the volume is avidly awaited is its authoritative essay on the state of the church. By tradition, the writer is anonymous, allowing him to cast aside habitual ecclesiastic politesse and speak with complete candor...
...peace and his internal reforms. By far the most important of these meetings was with nine congressional leaders, including four of the Senators who will ultimately decide whether to ratify the INF treaty. Most of the legislators came out of the 90-minute meeting impressed by Gorbachev's intelligence, candor and optimism. But many of them let the General Secretary know that some positive Soviet actions were necessary to improve relations. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat, noted that a timetable for Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan "would help" win Senate ratification for INF. Senate Democratic Whip Alan...
Gorbachev showed the blunt candor that has distinguished his domestic efforts at economic reform. In his talk with news executives, he referred to the Soviet Union as the "world's second ranking power." The remark, which surprised many Westerners in the audience, was consistent with the message he has been stressing at home: that the Soviet Union must squarely face up to the problems in its economic system. Soviet Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov later told TIME that it was the first time Gorbachev had put his country's runner-up status so bluntly. Quipped Gerasimov: "He conceded -- to Japan...