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Papal zeal has also created acute embarrassment among the Catholic politicians in Italy's fragile ruling coalition, led by the Christian Democrats. They had encouraged a low key, nondivisive approach to the issue in the hope of diminishing the political fallout. But the Pope's supporters maintain that it would be unthinkable for John Paul not to speak his mind on abortion in a country that is 95% Roman Catholic. Asks Giulio Andreotti, a sympathetic Christian Democrat and former Prime Minister: "How can one ask the Pope to be silent when one of the most delicate points...
...those people who have remained, a few show signs of delayed stress, which Therapist David Hawkins of the Lower Columbia Mental Health Center refers to as "the Mount St. Helens syndrome." Many acknowledge that the eruption produced heavy emotional fallout. "It was a kind of religious experience for many people," said one sidewalk philosopher. "A lot of people living together thought maybe there is a God and then went out and got married. When it passed, they got divorced." Some people grew cautious or suspicious. Grocer Greg Drew and some of his friends have bought radio scanners so they...
...assess the political fallout from the abortion conflict, Washington Correspondent Jeanne Saddler interviewed Eleanor Smeal, the pro-abortion president of the National Organization for Women, and Carl Anderson, a legislative aide to pro-life Senator Jesse Helms. Reporter-Researcher Barbara Dolan returned to Albany, where she reported her first abortion story in 1977. "In four years," says Dolan, "abortion politics in Albany has moved from a personal ideological discussion to a major issue in the women's movement and now to a partisan political confrontation." Correspondent Evan Thomas interviewed legal scholars about the constitutional implications of antiabortion legislation...
...Raja'i as Prime Minister. Then Banisadr, as commander in chief of the Iranian armed forces, gained great popularity with the people by leading the war against Iraq. He cannily avoided any involvement in the fundamentalists' negotiations with the U.S., thus dissociating himself from the inevitable fallout when the Americans left Iran...
Nukes: Benefit of the Doubt. The fallout from Three Mile Island was felt in five states, where voters pondered whether to limit nuclear power. In Missouri, citizens decided to give nukes the benefit of the doubt, turning down an initiative that would have prohibited the operation of any nuclear power stations until federally approved permanent storage sites for nuclear wastes were also available. The strongest opponent of the measure was Union Electric Co. of St. Louis, whose $1.3 billion plant, scheduled for completion in early 1983, would have been jeopardized. Said Sandy Rothschild, a house builder and opponent...