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...hoped, in fact, that the court would face larger issues; among them, whether or not wives seeking abortions are protected by the emerging constitutional right of marital privacy. But other cases raising such issues still await action from the court, and last week's decision gave no hint of what the ultimate outcome might...
...first faint hint of what was to come occurred at the world table tennis championships in Nagoya, Japan, two weeks ago, when the Chinese popped a startling question: "Would the Americans accept an invitation to tour China for a week, all expenses paid?" The group's answer: Delighted...
...become available this week when the congress "elects" a new Central Committee, which, in turn, will choose a new Politburo. The choices, of course, have already been made by the party leaders. The general assumption has been that few major shifts will take place. But Brezhnev dropped an intriguing hint in his speech that something dramatic and far reaching may be afoot. He noted that the Communist Party now has 14,455,321 card-carrying members -6% of the Soviet population-and that far too many of them, on all levels, are merely exploiting their positions. Accordingly, he said that...
...hard line on Laetrile. The American Cancer Society and the American Medical Association oppose the drug on the grounds that its efficacy is unproved. So does the FDA, which says: "There is no evidence, either preclinical or clinical, that it would be effective. There is not the slightest hint that it would work...
...conservative bosses who once ruled her party chose her to replace the late Lai Bahadur Shastri in 1966 primarily because they thought they could manipulate her. Though no modern leader has been so carefully groomed for leadership as Indira was in her father's house, there was no hint that her sense of duty would become one of mission, even destiny. As Nehru's only daughter, she grew up "a child of the nation," known and loved by all. She saw her parents and grandfather frequently carted off to jail. As a teenager, she organized children demonstrators...