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...Prime Minister, who urged voters to reject the amendment, the issue is filled with irony. Three elections ago, FitzGerald let the genie out of the bottle when he told the pro-life group that an abortion amendment "was an integral part of our program." Two governments later, his Fein Gael Party drafted a proposed amendment, only to have it rejected by coalition dissidents in favor of an alternative advanced by the Fianna Fáil opposition. All the while, the struggle between the pro-and antiabortion lobbies took on a strongly religious character. Groups of nuns distributed pro-life literature...
...Birds, sold for $1.9 million. But An Indecent Obsession (1981) managed much less. Watergate Conspirator John Ehrlichman and bestselling Feminist Author Betty Friedan recently shared the same fate: their books were withdrawn from paperback auction because the five-figure bids were insultingly low. There was only one bidder for Gael Greene's Doctor Love; and although Diana Trilling's Mrs. Harris went for $125,000, her publisher, William Jovanovich, says, "Two years ago, it would have brought over...
...Gael Greene, food critic for New York magazine...
...though he may still be able to compete in U.S. meets. The International Amateur Athletic Federation, the world governing body for track and field, said that urine tests taken last Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 at the Pacific Conference Games in New Zealand showed that Plucknett and another athlete-Gael Mulhall of Australia-had traces of anabolic steroids in their blood. Plucknett won the discus throw at the games, and Mulhall, now also under suspension, won the women's shotput and discus. Plucknett's coach denies that he used the drugs and says the urine sample must have...
...three weeks after Ireland's inconclusive general election, incumbent Prime Minister Charles Haughey and Opposition Leader Garret FitzGerald raced to form a new government. Last week FitzGerald won. He crafted an ingenious pact between his own pro-business Fine Gael (Family of the Irish) party and the ideologically distant, pro-union Labor Party. The result: a razor-thin majority of three seats in the Irish Dáil (parliament)-and a coalition so vulnerable it will take all of FitzGerald's wizardry just to last out the summer...