Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been anything but fast. In fact, the Federal Government's triple-murder charges against Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald have become one of the nation's hardiest legal perennials. The saga began on a winter night at Fort Bragg, N.C., back in 1970. Military police found MacDonald's pregnant wife and two daughters bludgeoned and stabbed to death. MacDonald, then a physician for the Green Berets, lay unconscious in the duplex apartment with 17 stab wounds. He claimed that four "hippie types" had committed the brutal slayings, but Army investigators believed he had expertly stabbed himself with nonfatal wounds...
...natural charm of an ingenue. Donnelly, who ran for the 1976 Olympic team, shines as the insecure, driven Tory. And Scott Glenn does equally well as their hard-assed coach who drams of leading a male team with which he wouldn't have to worry about "Lynn Swann getting pregnant or Rocky Bleier forgetting his tampax." It's only unfortunate that Towne didn't leave just this kind of chauvinist mentality in his fictitous locker room, rather letting it lead to a wimpy ending for an otherwise fine movie...
...states draft anti-abortion laws, women will leave their home states and go to neighboring ones with legal abortions; illegal clinics will set high prices for their Black Market skills. These "Coathanger Closets" or "Vacuum Alleys" would endanger lives; pregnant patients would never be certain whether their abortion was performed by a doctor, nurse, midwife, or butcher. Other choices creep up on the desperate mother-to-be the home-made, self-executed method, used for centuries before modern science and legal abortions, could grow popular again; many women would understandably rather risk injury or death than have their secret exposed...
...smoking will lead to 129,000 of those deaths. Tobacco, Koop said at a press conference, "is responsible for some 340,000 deaths in this country annually," not only from cancer but from heart trouble, chronic lung and respiratory diseases, and other ailments. Previous reports have blamed smoking by pregnant women for miscarriages, premature births and birth defects. Discussing the effects of smoking, Koop said: "This can only presage human tragedy in the years ahead and enormous economic loss to our country." He noted that smoking exacts a financial toll: more than $13 billion a year spent on smoking-related...
...take a position on bills pending in Congress that would require more explicit warning labels on cigarette packages. Among the proposed candidates: "Warning: Cigarette smoking is the number one cause of emphysema and lung cancer"; "Warning: Cigarette smoking is a major cause of heart disease"; "Warning: Cigarette smoking by pregnant women may result in birth defects or spontaneous abortion." Says John Banzhaf, executive director of Action on Smoking and Health, a consumer group: "So far, the Surgeon General's report is the only positive thing this Administration has done on the smoking and health issue...