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...campus health clinic, authorized to dispense contraceptives to students who have parental permission. The school, which serves one of the nation's poorest neighborhoods, is battling a veritable epidemic: each year about one-third of its 1,000 female students are pregnant. The clinic has elicited picketing and protest, mostly by religious and antiabortion groups, but the school has refused to back down. Says Principal Judith Steinhagen: "All I can say is, we're trying to keep some young ladies in school and off welfare...
...decades, the mostly poor and illiterate people of Haiti (pop. 6 million) have accepted their fate at the hands of corrupt dictators. But in recent months a combination of blatant economic mismanagement, lavish corruption surrounding President-for-Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier and brutal repression of those who protest his regime has brought increasing numbers of Haitians to a stark conclusion: enough is enough...
...upcoming HBO docudrama on Murrow's career has run into a storm of protest, most of it from the very people who knew him best. Their complaint is not with the film's admiring portrait of Murrow (played by Hill Street Blues' Daniel Travanti) but with its less favorable depiction of the CBS executives with whom Murrow had a sometimes rocky relationship...
...march began as a peaceful protest against the two-month-old agreement between Britain and Ireland, which grants Dublin a say in Northern Ireland's affairs. But after 2,500 Protestants arrived at the gates of Maryfield House, the headquarters of the Anglo-Irish secretariat outside Belfast, the march became a melee. Toughs hurled paving stones at Royal Ulster constabulary, injuring 26 officers. Unionist leaders denounced the violence but warned of a "complete collapse of government here" if Britain did not end the accord...
...Orthodox Jews who are wary of Mormons' missionary zeal. "We are convinced that this group wishes to Mormonize the people of Israel," declared 96 Israeli intellectuals in newspaper ads urging a halt to construction. The nation's two chief rabbis called for a mass rally against the center, and protests by black-hatted, ultra-Orthodox demonstrators have become commonplace at the site. Mayor Teddy Kollek, who approved the project, and the center's Mormon director have even received death threats. Last week 40 rabbis from communities outside Jerusalem joined the growing protest by picketing the office of Prime Minister Shimon...