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...greatest peacetime armadas ever assembled-600 ships from 50 donor nations-has borne 1,000,000 tons a month of mostly U.S. grain to drought-tormented India this year. Despite alarming predictions that millions of people might starve to death in that land, famine has been fended off. The massive U.S. effort, plus surprisingly effective distribution of rationed wheat and rice through India's bullock-and-leather-bucket economy, proved the apocalyptic prophets wrong...
...Donor Bobst, a onetime drug clerk who had only one year of college but rose to be board chairman of Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Co., finds the fuss over his gift "a little embarrassing." A lifetime library lover, he gave the money, he says, because of "my great faith in self-acquired education by reading." N.Y.U.'s Hester lustily applauds such faith in reading-and in the future of the urban university...
...adultery," the plaintiff husband in a divorce suit is still in trouble. If he consented, his wife may claim "condonation" (his tacit forgiveness), which usually bars divorce. If he did not consent, he may still be unable to prove that A.I.D. ever took place: he does not know the donor, his wife has a right to silence, and the doctor may not be allowed to testify if she objects. As a result, the husband faces the difficult job of proving that he actually was sterile nine months before the birth of his wife's child...
...consent or not, A.I.D. children are born illegitimate; yet the same courts have managed to give the children all the rights of ordinary children by finding roundabout ways to rule that they have, in effect, been made legitimate. There is even more uncertainty, say some lawyers, about whether the donor himself can be made to support a child. Some state laws hold that every child is the responsibility of its "natural parents"-which in A.I.D. cases means mother and donor. If sustained, those laws might rapidly diminish the supply of willing donors...
...examination without a wife's knowledge or consent? Can he be charged with a sex offense? Should a woman whose husband is not sterile be permitted to use A.I.D. because she desires a child of what she hopes is "better stock" than her husband's? Since one donor is capable of fathering 30 children per donation, how can the law prevent incest between siblings sired by the same donor? (A doctor's privileged knowledge once headed off just such a marriage.) If records are kept, how public can they be without hurting the children...