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...town where unemployment has been high, teen pregnancy is reaching epidemic levels. One out of five births at North Adams Regional Hospital is to an adolescent, and 90% of the young mothers wind up on welfare. "I'm seeing a world where kids feel being pregnant is a viable option," sighs Maggie Bitman, who runs a parenting program in North Adams. "They feel their lives are in disarray." The situation is similar in the mostly white, down-at-the-heels southern counties of Illinois, and in white, working-class areas where the work has disappeared. The underlying reasons...
...that she was swiftly married off in a shotgun wedding. Or, if marriage was impractical, the girl would discreetly disappear during her confinement, the child would be given up for adoption, and the matter would never be discussed again in polite company. Abortion, of course, was not a real option for most until 1973, when the Supreme Court ruled it could not be outlawed...
...kind of military action. Among U.S. allies that opposed the intervention were Britain, France and West Germany, all of which have trade links with Libya. Both the White House and the Pentagon insisted that a U.S. strike was unlikely, but at the same time the planning continued. One favored option called for an aerial engagement against Libyan fighters over the Gulf of Sidra, followed by strikes against one or more of the five main air bases strung out along the Libyan coast. Intelligence reports indicated that Libya was accelerating its deployment of Soviet surface-to-air missiles, including...
...week ended, it appeared that no U.S. decision had yet been taken. But one high-ranking West European official said, "We would not be surprised if the military option is shortly engaged." Like the U.S. interception of an Egyptian airliner carrying the alleged hijackers of the cruise ship Achille Lauro to freedom, that move would send an unmistakable message to Libya, Abu Nidal, the P.L.O. and any other sources of terrorism: such acts against U.S. citizens will not go unanswered. Whether that would have any effect on discouraging future terrorism was quite another question. --By William E. Smith. Reported...
Gorbachev's first phase would also include an agreement for "elimination" of U.S. and Soviet intermediate-range missiles from the "European zone." At first glance that looks like Reagan's zero option: no U.S. missiles in Western Europe (the U.S. is deploying 108 Pershing II ballistic and 464 Tomahawk cruise missiles in five countries); no Soviet missiles targeted on Western Europe (Moscow has more than 250 mobile, triple-warhead SS-20s in place). Up until last week, the Soviets insisted on keeping enough SS-20s (roughly 140) to equal the number of missiles in the independent British and French nuclear...