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Laws like the "squeal rule," requiring federally supported clinics to notify parents when they give contraceptives to minors [Feb. 7], will widen the existing gap between parent and teenager. Girls who seek professional guidance should not have their privacy violated. It is far wiser to have a girl 16 and counseled than 16 and pregnant...
...teenager, I was outraged to hear of the squeal rule. Most of my friends who are on birth-control pills received them through counseling at Government-funded clinics. Without the secrecy that was promised by the clinics, my best friends would have been added to the list of tragic stories of unwed mothers...
Kate Nelligan portrays Susan as a superior woman locked in the palace tower of her awful loneliness. Her performance is a little essay on exalted anxiety: allowing her suppressed anger to explode in a girlish squeal, semaphoring fear in a flash of the eyes, ragging her estranged husband for not feeling pain as exquisitely as she does. But there are some moments no one could bring to life. Who could infuse dramatic tension into the leisurely reading of a newspaper? What actress could bring off that old Oscar-cadging ploy, the sudden quiet hysterics in a bubble bath...
There is no lack of issues, or of partisans. Since it was put forward for public comment eleven months ago, the regulation has sparked 120,000 responses, including objections from agencies of all 38 states that aired their views. Opponents branded it the "squeal rule." The Reagan Administration did not flinch. "We've built a Berlin Wall between the kid and the parents," insisted Secretary of Health and Human Services Richard Schweiker. The new rule, he added, is "a reasonable balance" between the need to offer such services and the need not to undermine the role of parents...
...pair when it comes to appearances. Short and stout, with balding, frizzy hair that reveals a large melon of a forehead, he sits in marked contrast to Andre--tall, angular, and handsome. Like a baby squeezing a bathtub toy, Andre can play on Wally, eliciting a sputtering high-pitched squeal...