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...legal abortions has increased, the increase has not been dramatic, as opponents of liberalization had forecast. No city in a state with a liberalized law has become "the abortion capital of the U.S." In fact, the increase in numbers has been too small even to make an appreciable dent in the number of illegal, dangerously septic abortions, as some proponents of the laws had hoped they would. While the experience of these states offers useful guidelines for other legislatures that will consider liberalizing bills in their next sessions, it contains no simple solution to the abortion problem...
...artistic. Perhaps most momentous, community television stations could be established in the suburbs as well as the urban areas. (Television is going to be the most potent tool of social change in the near future and it offers the best possibilities for the talented hippie-radical to achieve any dent in society. Physicists could be television engineers and artists could put the meat on the skeleton of radical theory...
...shared endeavor would be instantly misunderstood and ridiculed. Such an action constitutes too violent a rejection of the generally accepted value-system of this society. No matter if the courtesy of paying for the girl turns out to be malignant, no one person can make a dent in the established way of doing things. Imagine going up to the average slick Cliffie intimating that she pay for herself and the magnitude of the undertaking will be apparent...
...Eastern Europe, Alexander Dubcek's two Communist allies were, if anything, stronger in their protest. "The attack on Czechoslovakia," said Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, "is a significant historical rupture in the relations among Socialist countries." Rumanian Presi dent and Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu called it "a great mistake, a grave danger to peace...
...call Racism a significant facet of the Summer School is, in my opinion, a gross injustice to the type of institution that will, I feel, make a substantial dent in today's "Racial Problems." Martin W. Oster