Word: saving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tanner did not "beat the system." He let it beat him. The Asian peasant, without access to television or comic book, will know nothing save that an American officer has admitted that some of his fellow pilots have refused to perform certain acts because they consider them criminal. For North Vietnamese propaganda purposes, a fraudulent confession is as effective as a real one, a phony pilot as useful as a genuine aviator...
...Love signed the bill in front of TV cameras, Colorado last week became the first state to legalize abortion on three principal medical grounds, with appropriate legal safeguards. Until Love's action, most abortions had been illegal in all 50 states. Although 45 states permitted "therapeutic abortion" to save a woman's life, that provision covered only 10,000 legal abortions a year. The total of illegal abortions in the U.S. is estimated at 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 a year, with a high rate of resulting infections and hundreds of deaths...
...challenges. Last week-a year later to the day-the ICC bestowed its blessing on a rail merger that it hopes will be consummated with minimum delay. Highballed to join on June 1 were the Chicago and North Western and the smaller Chicago Great Western, whose get-together could save the two lines $6,000,000 a year...
Liberal interpreters insist that autopsies can save lives by contributing to medical knowledge. In 1953 Israel's Parliament passed a law authorizing an autopsy when three doctors certify that it is necessary to determine the exact cause of death or for the treatment of another person. Orthodox extremists, who opposed the law in the first place, have been enraged, along with many other Jews, by charges that doctors are conducting widespread post-mortems for pathological research...
...Conyers got what he wanted; it was at least conceivable that Powell would be sworn in. Conyers emerged as a primary architect of the save-Powell campaign, and his remarks in the report stamped him as anything but a "sellout." Perhaps most important, his personal views -- considerably and understandably more sympathetic to Powell than almost anybody else in Congress-did not pre cent him from playing a major role in de liberations with eight other representatives for more conservative than...