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...uproar is over the future of Italy's controversial abortion law passed in 1978. The measure allows women over 18 to have an abortion at state expense in the first 90 days of pregnancy. Some 200,000 legal operations now take place annually in specially designated, state-run hospitals. But because of intense church opposition, many of the approved clinics do not perform the operations. Health officials estimate that as many as 600,000 of Italy's abortions are still done illegally. The grim cost: some 2,000 to 5,000 deaths per year...
...Medicare, which ends after only ninety days, scarcely aids chronically ill patients. Traditionally, as the costs of long-term care impoverished old people, Medicaid, a medical support program for the poor, took up much of the coverage slack. But the Reagan administration wants to cut federal funds for the state-run Medicaid programs...
...filthy, Dorofeyev then discovered Krasnodar's black market. Here at last, he found a wide assortment of cosmetics, underwear, socks, razors-"everything I could not find in the shops"-but all at inflated prices. A bar of Beautiful Moscow soap that sold for 60? when available in state-run stores was going for $2.25. The service on the black market, though, proved as surly as elsewhere. Snipped the soap seller: "Everything costs what it costs. If you don like the price, don't wash." Said a defeated Dorofeyev: "I had to wash, so I paid...
...masterly performance. Gone were the Louis XV chairs and crystal chandeliers of Giscard's previous televised appearances from the presidential palace that had contributed to a growing image of "monarchical" hauteur. In the state-run TV studio, a relaxed and animated President chatted, swiveled in his chair and consulted visual aids to make his points. His new style made a good-humored mockery of journalists' questions about the "Giscardian monarchy." Said he: "You are posing stupid questions, but I will answer them...
...would also make concessions to the basic demands of the country's private farmers, who own about 75% of the land and produce 80% of Poland's domestically grown food supply. Among other things, the program called for higher prices for agricultural produce, equal access with state-run farms to machinery, fertilizer and supplies, and new regulations allowing private farmers to increase their land holdings more easily...