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...religious leaders have made against the government. Moon himself sounded the call to rhetoric when he stood on the steps of the United States Court House after his indictment in 1981 and declared "I would not be standing here today if' my skin were white and my religion were Presbyterian. I am here today only because my skin is yellow and my religion is Unification Church...
...checked into the Neurological Institute at New York City's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center last week evoked a much different emotion. For at least two years, journalists and associates had noticed that Ali appeared to have aged beyond his years: his hand-eye coordination seemed to be impaired, and his speech was frequently unintelligible. The question was asked, aloud and in print: Could Ali, 42, who retired from boxing almost three years ago, be suffering from some kind of brain disorder...
Turning more specifically to abortion, the Governor contended that people who favor legalized abortion "aren't a ruthless, callous alliance of anti-Christians determined to overthrow our moral standards." Among them, he noted, are the American Lutheran Church, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), and women of the Episcopal Church and of B'nai B'rith. In view of the widespread opposition to an all-out ban on abortion, Cuomo noted, even the bishops had decided in 1981 that it was futile to seek such a constitutional ban. Instead, they endorsed the Hatch...
Ecker, a diagnostic radiologist who was consulting on Ali's case, said doctors at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center were testing drugs on Ali "to see if it helps him and how much it helps...
...Doris Del Zio in 1973 became the first couple in the U.S. to attempt IVF. An infertility specialist removed an egg from Mrs. Del Zio, put it in a container and handed it to her husband, who raced across town in a taxi to deliver it to the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. There, another doctor fertilized it with some of Del Zio's sperm and stored it in an incubator. The next day the hospital doctor was furiously scolded by his superior, Dr. Raymond Vande Wiele, who not only accused him of dangerous and unethical practices but also stopped...