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...spotted as he slipped into the party's massive brownstone quarters overlooking the Vltava River in Prague. He was reportedly subjected to grilling by a purge commission, and asked to recant his role in the 1968 reforms. He refused. Then he was asked to resign from the party. Again he refused. For Dubček, who remains a loyal Communist, the ordeal was punishing. Last week he was said to be under heavy guard in Prague's Sanops Clinic, undergoing treatment for severe nervous depression...
...A.M.A.'s stand on abortion: to accept the operation as ethical in states where it is legalized and to treat it as a strictly medical matter between a woman and her own doctor. After impassioned debate, marked by the threat that 35,000 Roman Catholic members would resign, the House of Delegates moved in two directions at once. It liberalized the code so as to make abortion acceptable for social and economic reasons in addition to the current narrow medical grounds. But it inserted a restriction that the patient's physician must consult two other doctors before acting...
...group as isolated individuals. An obligation to the group may collide with an obligation to the state. It may also conflict with personal honor. A man's comrades demand his cooperation. On the other hand, each man must use his own eyes. How, Walzer ponders, does one resign his comrades? Behind his Lenin-flavored existentialism-in which obligations are incurred to tight-knit groups-the vision of an independent and consenting self remains...
...good to have a private airing of differing opinions within the Administration. But once a policy has been adopted, it is the clear duty of all members to either implement that policy with complete loyalty or resign. Only if the latter course is chosen does one have the right to public expression of contrary views...
...because the foreign currency paid out for the dollars adds to the money supply in the country that does the buying. - Foreign governments can allow the price of their own currencies to rise, usually by formal revaluation. That reduces the inflow of unwanted dollars, but a revaluing country must resign itself to seeing its export prices go up. Even so. West Germany revalued the mark last year, and Canada is currently letting the price of its dollar rise in relatively free trading. Some European central bankers foresee a series of upward revaluations, in about a year or 18 months...