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...must not interfere with the right of any woman to have an abortion in the first three months of her pregnancy if she so chooses. That fundamental and sweeping principle was established by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973. But last week the court seriously compromised and restricted its edict. By a vote of 6 to 3, the Justices held in effect that the only women who can be certain of being able to have a medically safe abortion are those who can afford to pay for one. State and local governments, said the court, can choose whether...
...recall the nursery school edict of the early fifties when these students had been at the start of their educations: 'It is not formal manners that we are interested in, but internal feelings.' How wrong could they be? By what road straighter and faster than that of external forms does internal feeling travel to another person...
...FIRST WORDS ever written about golf appear in an edict issued by the Scottish King James II, who was affectionately nicknamed "fiery face" by his subjects. This decree, passed by the Scottish Parliament in 1457, outlawed the playing of golf with the stern invocation that "the futeball and golfe be utterly cryed downe and not to be used." James was increasingly alarmed by the golf mania sweeping his realm, which was distracting able-bodied men from the archery practice required during wartime. "Fiery face" later met an untimely and befitting death when he was killed by a cannon that blew...
DIVORCE. The Catholic Church has never recognized divorce in any marriage that it considers valid. The American bishops in 1884 decreed automatic excommunication for divorced Catholics who remarried while their original spouses were alive. "A Call to Action" asked that the church repeal the excommunication edict. It also opposed any practices that "brand separated, divorced, and divorced remarried Catholics as failures or discriminate against them and their children...
...week that Carroll and other members of the evaluating group had been "disappointed" by the decision. The official said that the company had received what was practically a letter of intent and was going to make the hardware order "momentarily" when it learned that Wyatt "virtually put forth an edict which declared a unilateral decision." Wyatt later explained to Hewlett-Packard, the official said, that although its machine had the necessary capability, which the Datapoint machine outline did not, he believed he could "make it do the job"--which the Hewlet-Packard official would require an efficiency rate of more...