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Restrictions on birth control distribution complicate the abortion dilemma. In Massachusetts, it is illegal for doctors to prescribe contraceptives for unmarried women, and illegal for druggists to fill these prescriptions. Many physicians circumvent this problem by inventing a medical excuse for prescribing the pill or by assuming that all of...
Washington sources have indicated that the Defense Department will probably try to circumvent the bill by adopting some such broad definition of military applications. If it does, however, Congress may try to put stricter limitations on Defense-financed research, the source said.
There is a strong possibility that the Defense Department could circumvent thebill, if it becomes law, by claiming that all research which it sponsors has a direct military application. But such a move, Brooks said, could work against a Harvard decision to join the Cambridge Project.
Washington sources and Harvard officials expressed the view yesterday that while the provision will probably become law, the Defense Department might circumvent it by defining all their research grants as having a direct military application. They added, however, that if the Department adopts this stance, Congress may act again with...
On Their Own. The Dame is particularly annoyed by the proliferation of agricultural tractors, imported by residents to circumvent the ban on cars. The tractors are used to cart tourists up the steep hill from the harbor-at a price. In addition, ugly rumors came to the Dame's...