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...exemplary program, the Archdiocese of Boston's Project Rachel, offers to pay all the pre-natal and post-natal costs of any woman who chooses to bring her child to term...
...South Africa, a decision handed down last week by the Supreme Court of Natal struck at key provisions of the nationwide state of emergency that is * now entering its fourth month. The court voided a measure empowering the police commissioner to prohibit any activity that he thought might endanger public order. It was under this provision that Pretoria announced its ban on mass funerals. Although the ruling applies only to the province of Natal, lawyers in the Transvaal are now pondering whether they could win a similar judgment, which would permit future gatherings to be held in Soweto...
...Beethoven string quartet. But the overriding tone of the festivities is pure glitz, in which an illuminated gas-filled plastic rainbow will arch 600 feet across the Charles River from Harvard's campus in Cambridge to Boston. Along the riverbank, a larger-than-life marionette of the university's natal benefactor, John Harvard, will prance to the music of a female samba group called the Batucada Belles. Saturday night the fete will peak in a pyrotechnical dazzle put on by Tommy Walker, who helped stage the finale of the Statue of Liberty centenary. Skyrockets will spell out the name JOHN...
...paradoxes: an independent judiciary housed within an authoritarian state. Yet at various times over the past four decades, South Africa's courts have challenged the government in an effort to protect the civil liberties of the country's black majority. Last week, as a three-judge panel of the Natal Supreme Court struck down key provisions of the state of emergency, the world saw a bold example of a maverick judicial system in action...
...faith, and ordered his release. A week later a three-judge Supreme Court panel in Durban set aside parts of the emergency regulations, charging that the sections dealing with "subversive statements" were a "lot of nonsense." Then came last week's ruling invalidating all detentions in parts of Natal province...