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What Bouvia is requesting is not a lethal injection, but it may be construed as equally wrong: because her doctors would be forced not only to witness, but also to hasten her suicide. And it is readily understandable that this would contradict many of the implications of the Hippocratic oatch on which their profession is based...
...almost ironic to call for the rejection of Meese as Attorney General. His removal from the White House represents the final routing of the hardline conservatives from Reagan's inner circle, and in that sense we welcome the move. But his appointment as Attorney General would only serve to hasten the further demise of the once-great office. Can Congress do anything other than reject this man's nomination-resoundingly...
Clearly the tangle of alien armies in Lebanon cannot hasten a solution in the Middle East, only more violence. The Lebanese must build on the dialogue (albeit stormy one) established at Geneva to quickly work toward both a settlement between warring Christians and Druse, and a removal of Israeli, Palestinian and Syrian forces from the country...
...most important reasons for voting yes on No. 2 are moral ones. This measure's passage would hasten a realization crucial to the nuclear disarmament movement: that a nuclear war would mean the end, that the weapons which Draper builds would be useless in a nuclear conflict...
About 70 or 80 years ago, which is to say, about four score--and yet who knows, with the new math--our fathers--and I hasten to say our mothers, too, because I am, and have always been, a strong supporter of the ERA, which as you know refers to the Equal Rights Amendment in the Congress, very hard. I might add, our fathers--and among them, I include my own 95-year-old father, who came to the shores of this great nation from his native Sweden, yearning for the new life America promised; our father brought forth upon...