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...suffering from severe oxygen deprivation, and died two days later. Hospital authorities in Rockford, Ill., soon found signs of what they believed was the cause of death: cocaine in the baby's urine, as well as in the bloodstream of her 24-year-old mother Melanie. Last week local law-enforcement officials arrested Melanie Green and charged her with involuntary manslaughter and supplying drugs to a minor...
With no end in sight for the current epidemic of drug use, it appears that pregnant women will increasingly be held accountable for behavior that jeopardizes their babies' health. "These cases are really mounting," says Harvard law professor Kathleen Sullivan, "and prosecutors are going to go wild until the courts stop them." Despite criticism of his actions, Winnebago County state's attorney Paul Logli, who is prosecuting the manslaughter and drug charges against Green, stands by his policy. Says he: "This is not a fetal-rights case or a pro-choice case or a pro-life case. We're dealing...
...Bush Administration and Congress to rein in a runaway budget deficit that helps keep interest rates high. White House and congressional leaders merely ducked the issue last month in a sleight-of-hand agreement that cut the 1990 deficit to about $100 billion to comply with the Gramm-Rudman law. But a recession could make a mockery of that rosy projection by swelling the red ink to as much as $175 billion. "Using monetary policy to slow the economy is a poor second-best solution," says David Rolley, a senior economist at the Wall Street firm of Drexel Burnham Lambert...
More important, Bush offered to work with Congress for a "temporary waiver" of the 1974 Jackson-Vanik amendment, which sharply restricts U.S.-Soviet trade unless the Kremlin allows free emigration of Soviet Jews and other citizens. The condition: the Kremlin must write into Soviet law liberalized definitions of who can leave the Soviet Union...
...outburst of altruism? Not exactly. Companies are sensibly responding to political pressures, as more and more communities enact environmental laws mandating recycling programs. Some 20 states are considering some kind of ban or restriction on nonrecycled plastics. Minneapolis and St. Paul have already passed laws that, beginning in 1990, will prohibit nondegradable and nonrecyclable plastic food containers, and a similar law will take effect this summer in Suffolk County, New York. Says John McDonald, director of environmental affairs at Continental Can, which uses recycled plastic to make detergent bottles: "We're trying to stay ahead of the issue...