Word: joycelyn
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After a speech last week, Clinton's new Surgeon General, Joycelyn Elders, recommended a radical solution to the grave problem of violence in America. She explained that "we would markedly reduce our crime rate if drugs were legalized." Other countries which have legalized drugs have experienced "a reduction in their crime rate" with "no increase in their drug use rate," she added. Elders made it clear, though, that her solution, while well grounded, would require serious study. "I don't know all the ramifications of this," she admitted...
Surgeon General nominee Joycelyn Elders made little effort to ingratiate herself with her conservative detractors, defiantly defending her radical belief that condoms are a more effective shield against teen pregnancy than moralistic admonitions to "just...
...Senate vote, Dr. Joycelyn Elders of Arkansas was confirmed as Surgeon General. The controversial candidate endured a three-month battle in which conservatives tried to depict her as a free-sex radical out of touch with the mainstream...
...seemingly endless stream of controversy over nominations that the Administration has endured. The Judiciary Committee voted 18 to 0 in favor of confirming Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a Justice of the Supreme Court. The Labor and Human Resources Committee gave a 13-to-4 endorsement to Dr. Joycelyn Elders to be Surgeon General. Louis Freeh, the nominee for fbi director, seems headed for quick approval this week...
Feelings are what Dr. Joycelyn Elders, Clinton's nominee for Surgeon General, stands accused of hurting with her controversial remarks about antiabortion activists (they have a "love affair with the fetus," and so on). Elders is, as TIME put it, "a verbal bomb thrower." The sensitivities of Roman Catholics and Fundamentalist Protestants were said to have been offended by her tart tongue. No doubt she wishes that she had bitten her tongue on an occasion or two. If that is not promotion of a stifling orthodoxy, what...