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...strict, they may not necessarily be enforced. Judges and juries across the country have been remarkably lenient on family members who become mercy killers. Rudy Linares, a Chicago landscaper, held off hospital workers with a .357-cal. pistol while he unplugged his baby son's respirator. The 15- month-old boy died in his father's arms. Linares was charged with first- degree murder, but a Cook County grand jury refused to indict him. In fact, out of some 20 U.S. cases of "mercy killings" in the past 50 years, studied by Leonard Glantz of Boston University, only three defendants...
...East Jerusalem and a Palestinian deported from the territories. Shamir's intransigence brought his Likud Party into direct conflict with the other major member of his coalition government, the Labor Party, which has embraced Baker's conditions. The impasse threatens to derail both the peace process and the 15-month-old national unity government...
Though New Delhi and Islamabad lodged strong protests with each other, they were careful not to overplay the affair, fearing that would only inflame passions. In Kashmir, meanwhile, seven people were killed last week in clashes between police and demonstrators, raising the toll in the 18-month-old uprising...
Like some 150 other young children in the U.S., 21-month-old Alyssa Smith was waiting for a new liver, her one chance to avoid death at an early age. Her prospects did not look bright, since the supply of livers taken from cadavers and suitable for transplant is critically slim. But last week a team of surgeons at the University of Chicago Medical Center gave the little girl from Schertz, Texas, her chance to live. And what seemed truly miraculous about the operation was the source of Alyssa's new liver: her mother...
...elderly English professor say he will "loan" the hero a car (old pedants say "lend"). The climax has the brutish Stark absurdly trying to write another novel to keep his ectoplasm from sloughing away in rivulets of goo. Characterization is perfunctory, with an odd exception: Beaumont's eight- month-old twin babies are vividly and charmingly described. For King fans this may be the sort of thing that sustains the myth that "he writes so well...