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...Catholic view is based on a general respect for all human life, but it does not depend exclusively on the belief that a separate human being appears at the instant of conception. The teaching is that precisely because no one knows when the soul enters the body (or in secular terms, when the fetus becomes a person), the baby-to-be should be given the benefit of the doubt and be fully protected. One blunt analogy: no one would think it morally correct to heave a grenade into a room that is probably empty but just might have a human...
...Ostpolitik in the late 1960s, denounced the "garrulous dilettantism" of Kohl's coalition. Christian Democratic Coalition Parliamentary Leader Alfred Dregger was singled out for blame. He had angered the East Germans by bluntly stating in an interview with the conservative daily Die Welt that "our future does not depend upon whether Herr Honecker pays us the honor of his visit." The East German Communist Party daily Neues Deutschland labeled the remarks "scandalous and provocative abuse" and added that Honecker "in the face of such developments is not pushing for a visit to the Federal Republic...
...scrape together the $3,510 fee for foreign visitors to be treated at Bourn Hall (British citizens pay $2,340). All are brimming over with hope that their prayers will be answered by in-vitro fertilization (IVF), the mating of egg and sperm in a laboratory dish. "They depend on Mr. Steptoe utterly," observes the husband of one patient. "Knowing him is like dying and being a friend of St. Peter...
...longer-term effect of the uproar over Ferraro's finances is impossible to judge; it will depend in part on whether some of the questions that her press conference did not entirely resolve continue to dog her. Even assuming, however, that most voters now view the matter as essentially closed and turn their attention to other issues, the controversy was a significant setback for the Democratic campaign, blunting its post-convention momentum and forcing it into a defensive crouch for nearly two weeks. For Ferraro, the affair probably comes out as a wash. She has lost some...
...profits of U.S. oil companies. Last week Frank Kneuttel, of the Gintel energy-research group, warned clients away from energy stocks. Said he: "The price is like a snowball coming downhill without a mogul to stop it." Falling prices will also hurt Mexico, Venezuela and other countries that depend on oil income to pay off their debt...