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...also leaning toward the concept that teen-agers should be able to get medical services where sex is concerned, without involving their parents. In a U.S. district court, two pregnant 16-year-old Boston girls recently won a delay in enforcement of a state law that requires them to obtain parental permission for abortions. But despite some progress, the medical rights of those under 18 remain unclear, particularly when it comes to preventing or ending pregnancy...
...many states, minors must obtain parental permission to get a prescription for the Pill or to obtain an abortion. Only 23 states have clearly recognized the rights of minors to use contraceptives; in only 16 states can juveniles get abortions on their own. Some court decisions have actually restricted the medical sex rights of minors. The Utah Supreme Court has overturned a lower court ruling that would have eliminated the requirement for parental permission for contraceptives. The court held that giving contraceptives to unmarried minors would make them "more likely to commit the crime of fornication and to become infected...
Aloni said a majority of Israelis now support negotiation with the Arabs. She urged the Israeli government to obtain a mandate for peace by calling elections now, so that the solution of the Palestinian problem would not be postponed any longer...
...former President Richard Nixon's income tax returns was resolved last week. His official tax adviser, Edward L. Morgan, pleaded guilty to conspiring with unnamed others to violate the U.S. tax laws by backdating a deed of Nixon's papers to the National Archives in order to obtain an illegal deduction...
...apportioning seats among the parties relative to the number of votes each receives; the leader of the party that gleans a simple majority becomes prime minister. The distribution of votes, however, will be staggered into three rounds. In order to participate in the second round, a party must obtain 17 per cent of the popular support, a coalition of three parties (for which only the extreme left qualifies) must obtain 30 per cent of the electoral balloting. These provisions purge the communist left and divert its votes at an early stage of the parcelling to the rightist majority...