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DIED. James Daly, 59, character actor who is currently being seen as Dr. Paul Lochner in reruns of TV's Medical Center; following a heart attack; in Nyack, N.Y. Daly managed to sustain an active Broadway career (Saint Joan, Billy Budd, J.B.) while garnering more than 600 television credits, primarily in adventure shows (The F.B.I., Mission: Impossible...
...choices are between good and better, between much and more. The momentum comes from highly educated and skillful bureaucrats who know how to maneuver in their worlds but have a full perception only of their own interests and do not sense the full burden the people must now sustain...
Nolen, who recognizes that the object of an abortion is to end a pregnancy rather than deliver a live fetus, understands the jury's action. "Life is life," he writes, "and as a doctor, I believe Edelin could and should have worked to sustain that brief life." Nolen believes that Ede lin was guilty of manslaughter. But he admits that he could not have voted to convict. There was, he insists, reasonable doubt as to the baby's ever having been alive outside the uterus, and the doctor should have been given the benefit of this doubt. Says...
...democratic order has to depend on police repression of the antisocial aggressive, then democracy itself is impaired. The more draconian become the measures whereby kidnapers and skyjackers are kept down, the more the democratic world itself is moving toward an acceptance of the principles, or lack of them, that sustain crime...
...this crucial point that the United Front leadership faltered. To sustain the incredible momentum from three hours of marching and chanting the demonstrators needed confidence and a means of channeling that energy. In hesitating, the leadership committed an error--but one that ultimately proved instructive...