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...Issler's lament is a far cry from the sexually liberated pronouncements of the 1960s. "The U.S. is going through a counterrevolution," says Richard Lincoln of New York City's Alan Guttmacher Institute. "We're moving backwards." Reason for the retreat: consumers' health worries and manufacturers' concerns about spiraling liability claims. Last January the IUD was nearly eliminated from the American market when G.D. Searle discontinued the Copper-7 and the Tatum-T. Defending just four Copper-7 liability suits cost the firm $1.5 million in legal fees, even though it won the cases. Sales of the Copper-7 amounted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Birth Control: Vanishing Options | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

...bomb three months earlier, then took him to a playground near the Rawdat Shahidain Cemetery. As a crowd of 1,000 looked on, Amal executioners stepped up to the prostrate Saleh and pumped seven machine-gun rounds into his face and body. The grisly execution tragically bore out the lament of Lebanese Army Brigadier General Mohammed Haj as bodies were being pulled from the rubble in Barbir. "In this deadly game," said Haj, "we are all victims and losers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Grisly Logic of Violence | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

...Deaver has not lost any clients because of the flap. The world will still need people like him who can convert ideas into reality, he says. One lament is that he became a problem for Reagan. "I feel bad that he has to defend me," said Deaver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: I Would Keep a Lower Profile | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

...DANCERS enter into the wide open clearing formed by the audience seated on the floor who become, like the chorus in classic epic, the inclusive margins of the ritualized performance. Throughout the evening, which proceeds largely in the fashion of oral narrative, the audience is incited to sing, cheer, lament, and otherwise express on cue their sympathies for the story being "made" in their midst. At the end, following the shamanistic purging performed by the women's "Dance of Life," the shamans invite members of the audience to join in the final frenzied clamor of the nan-jang...

Author: By Hein Kim, | Title: Far From Home | 4/18/1986 | See Source »

...stable arms-control situation. Or should mobile missiles, as the Administration has also said, be banned in any new arms agreement? "I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly," said Alice to the Caterpillar in Wonderland. "Being so many sizes in a day is very confusing." Her lament & fits the debate over the proposed Midgetman missile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Midgetman in Wonderland | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

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