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...rare occasions, to circumvent Hoover's directive by meeting privately, without his knowledge. CIA men complained that Hoover's action effectively cut off the international from the national intelligence effort. One former CIA agent argues that Hoover, finding himself under heavy attack, believes that he is safer making fewer moves and allowing fewer initiatives so that there is less possibility of a damaging mistake...
...what of the book's occasional gratuitous mention of Hollywood personalities whom Liz claims to have known and loved? And what of its nasty little attacks on Robert Kennedy, whom, as attorney general, Liz blames for many of her legal pratfalls? Anything to sidetrack the conversation onto safer, more substantive ground...
...Kennedy name evokes too many unpleasant memories to make him a very powerful presidential candidate. And Kennedy himself seems politically tired and uncertain, preferring to take the safer stands on legislative issues rather than to undertake the personal political commitment which he demands of students...
...general, abortion has become safer since legalization. New York State recorded 21 fatalities in 1968, 24 in 1969; since the new law took effect, the state has recorded only eight, or 4.8 per 100,000 legal abortions. (The U.S. maternal-mortality rate is 27.4 per 100,000 births.) Abortion complications, which can include perforation of the uterus, hemorrhage and infection, are far less frequent in legal than in illegal procedures...
Doctors, meanwhile, are seeking to make abortion easier, safer-and, ideally, unnecessary. Because the New York experience has shown that early abortions are only one-sixth as likely as later operations to result in complications, physicians and counselors are trying to educate women to come in as soon as they have missed a period. Research is also progressing on substances that can safely induce menstruation when it is late. This would be not merely a morning-after pill, but perhaps, eventually, a fortnight-after pill...