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...said. In fact, Rosahn had been temporarily freed only days earlier on $10,000 bail posted by her radical-minded mother, in connection with an antiapartheid rioting charge. Rosahn's alleged complicity provided a clearer link with a third leftist group, the May 19 Coalition, a Weather Underground offshoot that is believed to include Boudin and Clark...
Although six prisoners continued to refuse food, the interventions by strikers' families have damaged I.R.A. credibility and hurt the morale of H-block prisoners. But the protest movement was dealt an even more severe blow last week when leaders of an I.R.A. offshoot organization, the paramilitary Irish National Liberation Army, refused "for the present" to allow more of its members to join the hunger strike. (Three of the 32 I.N.L.A. prisoners in H-block have died so far.) Said an I.N.L.A. statement: "All of our prisoners would be dead within six months. It is obvious now that the British...
With expensive legal advice from the Washington law firm of Covington and Burling, the club adheres scrupulously to federal campaign-spending laws. But its Jefferson Marketing offshoot is a private, for-profit firm and is thus not required to report how it spends money paid it by the Congressional Club. (A group disbanded last month called the Campaign Committee, which had provided workers for the political campaigns, had similar status.) That makes a detailed examination of the club's activities impossible...
...parental termination cases, which often are instigated by a social worker who believes a child is being abused or neglected. How these states will interpret the court's decision remains to be seen. Says Marcia Lowry, director of the New York-based Children's Rights Project, an offshoot of the American Civil Liberties Union: "Without the right to counsel, these hearings are not going to be hearings." Furthermore, many of the lawyers appointed in these cases are funded by the Legal Services Corporation, an agency threatened by Reagan budget cuts...
This is the first time since 1662 that the Church of England has made any substantial change in its liturgy. The Episcopal Church, the U.S. offshoot of the Church of England, updated its Book of Common Prayer in 1928. But in England a similar effort was blocked by the House of Commons. Parliament did not give the church authority to revise its liturgy until...