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...secession. Alberta has felt shackled by Canada's regional economic inequities. The wealthier provinces, particularly highly-industrialized Ontario, oil-rich Alberta and resource-rich British Columbia have traditionally offered support to the country's poorer regions. But the booming economy in Alberta has made Albertans impatient, headed by the outspoken Lougheed. The advantages of remaining in confederation have been increasingly eclipsed for residents of Clark's home province...
...clinic proposal at two public hearings, vowed to continue the fight in court. The group contends that in vitro fertilization can lead to abortion since flawed embryos will be destroyed before or after implantation. Objections have also been voiced in other quarters. Last week Harvard Biologist Ruth Hubbard, an outspoken feminist, charged that "the push toward this technology reinforces the all-too-prevalent view in our society that women's lives are unfulfilled or indeed worthless unless we bear children." Since so little is known about the consequences of such methods, she said, women and their test-tube babies...
...1970s. Detente has actually been disintegrating for five years, with the U.S. bearing a fair share of the responsibility. In addition, the zigzags of the Carter Administration unquestionably have confused and worried the Soviets?from the toughness of the first Cyrus Vance SALT proposals in 1977, and Carter's outspoken human rights
Kennedy has lost popularity partly because his image as a strong leader has softened as he has mumbled and fumbled on television and on the hustings. He suffered a serious, self-inflicted wound from his outspoken criticism of the Shah of Iran while the Americans remained captive in Tehran. A whopping 74% disapproved of Kennedy's remarks being made at that time. Only 17% approved...
...outspoken, well-tailored $82,500-per-year superintendent of the nation's third largest school system, Chicago's Joseph Harmon was a favorite in the Gold Coast parlors of the city's business elite. In four years on the job his scrappy resistance to busing in the racially divided system, now 80% nonwhite, won him praise from whites-and steady criticism from minorities and the Federal Government. But when Hannon recently telephoned to talk about the schools with his friend Don Reuben, a well-connected local lawyer and adviser to Chicago's Mayor Jane Byrne...