Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Blond, bearded and neat, Ed Starkins, 26, has lived in Vancouver for three years. He works for $100 a week at a medical clinic, writing health manuals. A graduate of San Diego State, he left for Canada after learning that the FBI had called at his home one day while he was out (he had ignored two draft notices). Starkins likes Canada so much he plans to stay. "I wouldn't go back," he says, "except to visit my family and friends. The problem is not just the Viet Nam War. It is the whole social structure that...
...fast in refusing to provide abortion on request." A Virginia group of Catholic laymen urged a "symbolic gesture": excommunication of William Brennan, the court's only Catholic and part of the majority. Naturally, the decision brought cheers from pro-abortionists-and equally prompt action. One shut-down abortion clinic in Detroit had equipment flown in right after the court acted and performed 20 abortions by the next evening. By week's end three more private clinics had opened in the Detroit area. The feminist Women's Health Center in Los Angeles also announced it would soon have...
...abortion. Attorney Margie Pitts Hames, who argued the case for Mary Doe, points out that this can be a critical factor in poor rural areas with only one doctor. That specific question was not before him, but Justice Blackmun, a former (1950-59) resident counsel at the Mayo Clinic, obviously has faith in the physician's traditional discretion. "Despite the presence of rascals in the medical profession, as in all others," he said, "we trust that most physicians are 'good...
Freshman basketball coach John Harvey is starting a clinic this summer at a small liberal arts college in New Hampshire designed to give similar opportunities to high school students who come from low income homes or whose parents are on welfare. In an interview yesterday Harvey explained that he did not expect his program to be run the way most basketball clinics are organized...
...think you have to realize that just teaching these kids the fundamentals of basketball is not enough to get them ready for college. I hope that in addition to running a clinic, the counselors and I will be able to give the guys some idea of what they have to do to apply to college successfully...