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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Believing that Congress should not simply oppose, Moffett is also pushing his own plan to force every driver to choose one day a week on which he would keep his car or cars in the garage. The motorist would get a windshield sticker identifying the day he chose not to drive; if caught on the road on the forbidden day, he would be subject to arrest and a fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter: Gas as a Gag | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...Liberal strategy was to depict Trudeau as the only leader with enough depth and experience to turn the economy around, maintain the authority of the central government and keep Quebec from breaking away. "In every important area of policy, Joe Clark doesn't know what the heck he is talking about," claimed Trudeau. Putting it more bluntly, one Trudeau aide told TIME Ottawa Bureau Chief John Scott: "The Conservatives' bottom line is that it's time for a change. Our bottom line is that Joe Clark is a nerd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: From Trudeau to Plain Joe | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...could easily be the plot to an episode of "Medical Center," but such situations have led to a real-life drama currently playing in the courts and hospitals of Massachusetts. Due to recent technological and medical advances that enable doctors to keep patients on the brink of death alive and to treat with limited success the previously incurable, doctors and lawyers are for the first time tackling the question, "Who, if anyone, should pull the plug?" In the case of an incompetent patient--such as the very young, the unconscious, or the mentally retarded--who should take on the awesome...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: A Matter of Life and Death: Who Should 'Pull The Plug'? | 5/29/1979 | See Source »

...Myers, a case that deals with the appropriateness of euthanasia for any patient, competent or incompetent. It involves a prisoner on renal dialysis who wanted to stop his treatments and be allowed to die. The Suffold Superior Court has ruled that the prison commissioner could force the prisoner to keep taking his life-saving treatment...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: A Matter of Life and Death: Who Should 'Pull The Plug'? | 5/29/1979 | See Source »

...that guerilla defections were mounting after the elections. Vietnam is not so long gone that no one remembers the body-counts of dead Viet-Cong. If those counts were correct, half of Asia's population fought and died for the NLF. This imbalance, this reliance on Salisbury officials to keep Americans informed, might be correct if the Times and other media sent correspondents to Mozambique and Zambia, to cover the war from the guerillas' side. But that's not likely--foreign correspondents cost too much money, and the Times is, after all, the newspaper of record, which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Guns And Butter | 5/29/1979 | See Source »

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