Word: schaefers
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Even before she had a chance to take over the Maryland Governor's chair last month, Shaila Aery confronted her first crisis: two guards held hostage in a state prison uprising. Aery remembers thinking, "Where can I hide?" Fortunately the real Governor, William Donald Schaefer, alerted to the emergency, was already at his desk. But for Aery, normally secretary of higher education, it was a dramatic introduction to a unique job-swapping scheme in which the Governor ordered state Cabinet officials to exchange portfolios every morning for a month, then write reports and suggestions based on their experiences...
...Schaefer, who moved temporarily to the department of human resources, is proud of his shake-up. Taking over a Cabinet colleague's desk, he believes, brings in fresh eyes and can inject new ideas into stale bureaucracy. He devised the plan while he was mayor of Baltimore from 1971 to 1987 because the city's departments "did not know they were interdependent." When he first proposed the idea to city officials, he recalls, "they thought it was silly. But the second time we got good results...
After a year of debate, Maryland Governor William D. Schaefer signed a bill last week that would protect a woman's right to have an abortion should the Supreme Court ever reverse its 1973 decision guaranteeing that right nationwide. The law allows abortion without restrictions up to the time a fetus is able to survive outside the womb; after that, an abortion can be performed only to protect a woman's health or when a fetus is deformed. While pro-choice advocates acclaimed the new law, antiabortion groups attacked it. "It will become the most liberal, the most extreme abortion...
...another move hailed as a gain for women's rights, Schaefer last week commuted the sentences of eight women convicted of killing or assaulting men who had battered them. In December, Ohio's outgoing Governor Richard F. Celeste granted clemency to 26 such women. Feminist groups are urging other Governors to take similar action...
...learning to live with AIDS, White had to learn to live with his homosexuality. "I didn't want to be gay," he says. "I wanted to be normal, to have a wife and kids, not have a lonely old age." So why gay? "He has always said," says Marilyn Schaefer, a lifelong friend, "that it happened because of the divorce. That he absorbed too deeply his mother's longing...