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...still illegal. Malta and the Philippines are others. The setback weakens FitzGerald's chances of re- election in 1987. Though the opposition Fianna Fail party remained neutral on the referendum, it made clear its opposition to the amendment. The Prime Minister's failure to legalize divorce could thus hasten his departure from power...
...chaired the council, concurs: "We're not talking about going into Granny's room and taking away her water pitcher." Granny benefits from such care, says Dickey, a family practitioner in Richmond, Texas, but "the comatose patient derives no comfort, no improvement, no hope of improvement." Both doctors hasten to point out that physicians who disagree with this view are free to follow their conscience. The council opinion is in no way binding...
With debate still vibrant, the practical impact of the A.M.A. decision is likely to be mixed. Doctors will no doubt feel more comfortable about acting quietly with family approval to hasten the dying process. The family of a patient like Nancy Jobes, whose plight is more public, will be able to make a stronger argument but may still face a legal battle; the Jobes' request to remove the feeding tube goes to court this week. However helpful, the A.M.A.'s new ruling cannot ease the heartbreak for families weighing such a decision. It is one thing to shut...
Then Marcos did something he had not done for more than a decade: he designated a Vice President, a post he had abolished after he declared martial law, evidently for fear that any understudy might someday try to hasten his departure. To the surprise of many, he picked as his running mate Arturo ("Turing") Tolentino, 75, a party maverick who was sacked as Foreign Minister nine months ago for espousing views "incompatible" with the President...
...apartheid or to prepare students for higher education is a step that helps pave the way for change. Such efforts may not make an immediate visible dent on the apartheid system, but they are still worth doing. Together with similar steps by other concerned organizations, they may help to hasten the day of human dignity and political rights for all people in South Africa...