Word: jans
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Legalize marijuana [Jan. 29]. Think of the advantages: a new taxable market, a reduction in the trade deficit (by growing and consuming domestic crops) and an end to all the corruption and violence that come with imported...
Abortionists are trying to set up pro-life as a religious issue [Jan. 29] so they can shoot it down as such. Many pro-lifers are religious but that does not make it a religious issue. Abortion is a scientific and moral issue. A fetus is a living individual with a separate identity from conception. When one person's "right" inflicts death on another, that right becomes secondary...
This heartfelt homage concluded a week in which the circumstances of Rockefeller's collapse had provoked some unusual speculation. In discussing the matter with reporters shortly after Rockefeller's death on the night of Jan. 26, his longtime press secretary Hugh Morrow said that only a security aide was present when Rockefeller was stricken at 10:15 p.m. while working on an art book at his office in Rockefeller Center. The phone call that summoned police, said Morrow, had been placed by an "unidentified woman neighbor." It soon turned out that Morrow had his facts wrong...
Even more damaging to Bakhtiar's credibility was his open support of the military, which has tried to intimidate Khomeini's supporters by firing randomly at throngs of unarmed civilian demonstrators. On the "Bloody Sunday" of Jan. 28, the army fired directly into demonstrators gathered around 24 Esfand Square, near the university, and sniped at them from nearby rooftops for nearly four hours. By the end of the afternoon, there were 30 known dead and hundreds wounded; hospitals were jammed with the dying (see box). Bakhtiar defended the slaughter, which followed a similar assault two days earlier, as a retaliation...
BORN. To Yevgeny Yevtushenko, 45, Soviet poet, and Jan Butler, 26, her husband's assistant and translator: their first child; in Bournemouth, England. Name: Alexander. Yevtushenko has no natural children from his two previous marriages, though he has one adopted...