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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chief prosecution witness then testified that the fetus died within the womb because Edelin kept his hand in the uterus through an abdominal incision. The presiding judge at the trial said a manslaughter victim had to be "alive outside the body of the mother." Nonetheless, Edelin was convicted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Edelin Named to B.U. Med School Post | 3/20/1979 | See Source »

...Hanta Yo fast-moving. Just over 800 pages long, Hill's epic is hardly suspensful. Rather, it is sagalike, but the reality is Siouian. The ethnography can be tedious if the reader is not interested. On the other hand, for readers who are familiar with American Indian history, Hanta Yo is just another well-written novel that does not work as well as it should...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: Perpetuating an American Stereotype | 3/20/1979 | See Source »

...Wiprud as the zany Professor Marshall Cupris Guigny, on the other hand, performs well, aided by the funniest line in the show. Wiprud in his brief appearance employs a full range of comic devices to lend humor to this part...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Two's Company, Three's a Crowd | 3/20/1979 | See Source »

...regime tirelessly proclaims that it will never again sell the 5.5 million bbl. per day that made prerevolutionary Iran the second largest oil producer in the 13-member OPEC cartel. On the other hand, the country's strife-battered economy desperately needs the hard foreign money that petroleum brings in. Since the Khomeini government has not yet figured out what its revenue needs will be, NIOC has been unable to gauge how much oil it will have to pump. In the uncertainty, Iranian authorities have been grabbing projected export figures out o the air, with semiofficial guesstimate ranging from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Petro-Perils Proliferate | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...them over to two handicapped people. One was a Mystic, Conn., woman who worked with Tish for three months before the experiment was halted. The other was William Powell, 31, who has been paralyzed from the shoulders down, except for partial use of his right arm (though not his hand), since a motorcycle accident a decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Live-In Monkeys | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

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