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...Japan was long surrounded by a romantic and aesthetic aura that arose from the samurai tradition. Now it seems an especially unhappy and unheroic spectacle. A group called the Japan Association for the Prevention of Parent-Child Suicide has been established to try to discourage such tragedies. Some 400 occur every year. In recent weeks a man threw himself and his two children into a river, a family of four drove into a river, a mother strangled her child and then took her own life. There is a pattern: the parents cannot pay back loans or cannot endure the financial...
Just as remarkable as PAN's victories was the fact that the PRI allowed them to occur. To his credit, President De la Madrid had instructed officials to keep the elections clean and to let the results stand. Said Heberto Castillo, head of the small leftist Mexican Workers' Party: "It is a positive note for the free play of democracy...
Women do not need the Supreme Court to support their right to choose to have an abortion. Rather, women need to decide beforehand whether to avoid pregnancy or to accept it, should pregnancy occur. By the time a woman is pregnant, she has already made her choice. Though women are the bearers of life, they are not the creators of life, and therefore have no fundamental right to destroy the life they carry in their body...
Those are the chief findings of a start-of-summer survey of American attitudes taken for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly and White Inc.* There are puzzling crosscurrents, of the type that occur in every poll, but the upswing in optimism is unmistakable. In response to the broadest question, "How do you feel things are going in the country these days?" a solid majority of 57% answered either "very well" or "fairly well," vs. only 41% who replied "pretty badly" or "very badly." That marks a striking reversal from the last two polls: in March those who judged the nation...
...Robert A. Rosenberg, development office official. Five years out of school, however, the big push begins with a class reunion. This serves to bring students back to Cambridge, reminding them that they will soon be the older influential alumni they've heard so much about. From then on reunions occur every five years. The 25th is usually the biggest--a four day extravaganza where everyone enjoys the revelry and reminiscing--especially the development office. This year's event cost the University $600,000 but brought in more than $6 million from thankful members of the Class of '58. The next...