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More than 90% of Mexicans are nominally Roman Catholic; yet anticlerical laws forbid the church to own property, operate primary schools or comment on public affairs. The result is a series of compromises, and the constitution bows to both sides of the birth-control controversy by decreeing that "each person has the right to decide in a free, responsible and informed manner about the number [of] children...
...government's top-secret listening post at Cheltenham. The Prime Minister ousted the unions last January, claiming that two earlier work stoppages had badly disrupted the round-the-clock monitoring of satellite, radio and other communications. Though the judge upheld the government's right to forbid unions at Cheltenham, he ruled that the Prime Minister should have first consulted labor leaders and the Cheltenham staff. The decision, which the government is appealing, fanned opposition-party charges that Thatcher has been acting like an autocratic empress. Said Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock, with ill-concealed glee: "You have been...
...educational. "I assume our viewers are intelligent." Koppel says. "But like Mark Twain said. All people are ignorant about some things.' But to admit that 'Nightline' is an 'educational program' would be to sound its death knell. Television generally does a pretty lousy job with information and--God forbid--education...
Some funeral directors say that expensive coffins will prevent a body from decaying or that bodies must be in caskets before they can be cremated. The new rules forbid such misleading claims. In addition, morticians must notify customers that embalming is not legally required in most circumstances. Many funeral directors embalm routinely. In one instance a truck driver was burned beyond recognition in an Illinois crash. Nonetheless, the funeral home charged his family for embalming and cosmetology...
...fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being." The weight of existence descends on Tomás and Tereza. Homesick and upset by her husband's continued philan-gdering, she returns to Czechoslovakia, and he follows, knowing that the i authorities will forbid him to practice medicine...