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...take toward organ transplants? Although tradition forbids the desecration of the Moslem dead, the Kuala Lumpur conference decided that, since Islamic law also holds that life must be preserved if at all possible, human transplants are a legitimate life-saving tool. The meeting dealt similarly with a rather improbable dilemma involving dietary law. Lost in the desert and near starvation, a devout Moslem is suddenly confronted by two bits of unexpected sustenance: a stray piece of pork and some nonforbidden food in the hands of a traveler. Which should he take? He could not snatch the other...
...only a political hypocrite, but a particularly poor political hypocrite." The Unionists will never carry out reforms, she said, because the party survives on discrimination and "by introducing the human rights bill, it signs its own death warrant." That, of course, is indeed O'Neill's dilemma in dealing with the reactionaries in his own party-and part and parcel of Northern Ireland's once and present agony...
...predominantly Negro Atlanta University Center, 100 students held 22 trustees prisoner for 29 hours until the trustees agreed, among other things, to amnesty for their captors. President Buell Gallagher of New York's City College found himself in the familiar dilemma between repression and submission when a couple of hundred students locked the gates. He chose to close the school to its 20,000 students while negotiating with the rebels. Other schools under varying degrees of siege last week included Princeton, Fordham, Tulane, Dartmouth, Howard and Hampton Institute in Virginia...
Britain's economic dilemma is a blend of too much pride and too little selfdiscipline. For centuries Britain enjoyed overwhelming economic and political power for its size, a situation that has left the country accustomed to living beyond its shrunken means. Doubt has taken deep hold that any government-or policy-will overcome the problem. Britain long ago stopped making full use of either its individual resources or its technological know-how. Only if it succeeds in using both will its economy gain the strength to climb out of the present morass...
...would," replied Los Angeles Architect Charles Luckman, a friend of 30 years, when Kriendler mentioned his dilemma last August. Because of precisely the same situation, Luckman had recently brought his own firm, Charles Luckman Associates, into Ablon's realm as a part of Ogden Development Corp. By coincidence, that deal had been struck over a two-hour lunch at "21". Ablon, who is also a regular patron, quickly agreed that safeguarding such a symbol of opulence would be good business for Ogden...