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ANTI-ABORTIONISTS are still making an international fuss over RU 486. In France, the pharmaceutical company Roussel Uclaf--which made the pill--almost stopped its distribution because of anti-abortion pressure. The company then reversed its decision in the face of pro-choice protests. RU 486 is now widely distributed in France, and is headed toward other Western European countries...
...addition to considering court action, Lifshey has asked the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard (CLUH) to investigate Downing's action. Julia L. Shaffner '90, CLUH's president, said the group would probably "make a bit of a fuss about [the incident]," and might "go to the administration to try to get some guidelines drawn up on free speech in a public context on campus...
...York Democrat is a former Harvard professor with a knack for stirring up controversy. As Assistant Secretary in Lyndon Johnson's Labor Department, he kicked up a fuss by issuing a hotly disputed report on female- headed black families. Five years later, as Richard Nixon's adviser on domestic policy, he urged "benign neglect" on racial issues, meaning that the Administration should let racial controversy cool before launching new civil rights initiatives. In the case of Social Security, Moynihan admits that he was out to attract notice through the political equivalent of hitting Congress over the head with...
...contras seemed to have faded to the vanishing point. But when federal Judge Harold Greene ordered that more than 30 excerpts from Reagan's Oval Office diary be turned over to his former National Security Adviser John Poindexter on the ground that they were relevant to his defense, the fuss flared anew, if perhaps only fleetingly...
...Soviet Jews have moved to the West Bank, what is the fuss about? The vital issue is the overall growth of Israel as a regional power. As Shamir put it, "In five years we won't be able to recognize this country. Everything will change, everything will be bigger, stronger." The Arab states correctly read this to mean that Israel is counting on the surge of immigration to ensure its domination of its neighbors for decades to come. No matter how clearly the Arabs see that threat, their pressure is unlikely to force Gorbachev to choke off Jewish emigration from...