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...most part, however, the country rejoiced in the sudden easing of tension. The banks were open again. Tens of thousands of workers were ordered to end a nationwide wave of strikes and go back to their jobs. The new government sugared the pill by announcing a 70% wage increase for those who had been in the midst of labor negotiations at the time of the coup. There were soldiers on duty on city streets and bridges, and a cluster of blue-bereted commandos chatted idly outside Istanbul's Blue Mosque. Otherwise, the armed forces tried to keep discreetly...
REASSESSING THE PILL'S RISKS...
Heart attacks, stroke, hypertension, gall bladder disease, cervical cancer, benign tumors, blood clots, diabetes: all have been linked to the Pill. Now a twelve-year study of 16,000 women in California suggests that the fears about oral contraceptives may be exaggerated. The findings to be published this summer may well be disputed once they are examined by other researchers. But the study's research director, Dr. Savitri Ramcharan, argued last week that "the risks of the Pill, if they exist at all, are negligible...
...study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, involved healthy women, ages 18 to 54, enrolled at the Kaiser-Permanente Medical Center in Walnut Creek. A quarter of them took oral contraceptives regularly. Among the findings: Pill users did not have higher mortality rates than nonusers, if they did not smoke, and ran no greater risk of developing circulatory problems or cancer of the breast, ovaries or lining of the uterus. Though the researchers did note a slight increase in lung cancer, they said that it was probably caused by the women's heavy cigarette smoking. Similarly, they said...
...Soviets are lagging. The government's ideal family has three children, but couples are forced to use the unreliable rhythm method or coitus interruptus, with abortion as a backup. According to Dr. Knaus, Soviet men do not like condoms, diaphragms come in only one size, and the pill (which is just beginning to be manufactured within the U.S.S.R.) is regarded with skepticism and fear. Intrauterine devices are popular but in short supply. The result: in 1980 Soviet doctors performed an estimated 16 million abortions. Says Dr. Knaus: "The average woman has six abortions during her lifetime. A woman...