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...extraordinary that when one member of the family, John Lee Saltonstall Jr. '38, began working for a Democratic candidate, that one of the senior members of the family, long connected to the Republican party, wrote in to The Boston Globe to publicly disassociate himself from the unprecendented party switch...
Rhonda Issler chose the Pill as her first contraceptive when she was a young adult in the early 1970s. But after five years, news of the Pill's potentially harmful side effects made her switch to an intrauterine device. Soon after, she suffered severe menstrual cramps and a pelvic infection. Issler eventually turned to the diaphragm, but she found its use messy and inhibiting. Now 33 and living in North Hollywood, Calif., the working mother of one relies uneasily on a combination of the rhythm method and the condom. "Birth control is a very important decision, but also a very...
...made for them. They will be assigned a carrier according to the outcome in their region. If ballots split 60% for AT& T and 40% for MCI, for example, 60% of nonvoting consumers would receive AT&T service while the remainder would find themselves dialing on MCI. Customers could switch carriers thereafter, but would pay a $5 fee to their local Baby Bell...
...fact, they had not done any such thing. Two months ago, the Miami- based retailer known as Teltec Savings Communications filed suit against AT&T for allegedly misappropriating customers and trying to "undermine" Teltec's business. Sprint and Western Union have also been charged with using bait-and- switch tactics, quoting one long-distance subscription rate to consumers, then charging another. Yet despite all those occurrences, FCC overseers claim the election process has been fair. Says Albert Halprin, chief of the FCC's common-carrier division: "The process was not perfect. But considering its size and scope, I'm surprised...
Last year Iran moved its main oil-shipping operations from Kharg Island, which is only 125 miles from Iraq, to Sirri, 350 miles farther down the gulf. The switch helped keep tankers out of range of Iraq's air force. But either by using in-flight refueling, as some Western military analysts conjectured, or airfields in nearby Arab states, as the Iranians claimed, Iraq proved that it has the ability to reach Sirri. Iran, meanwhile, is trying to move its oil- loading operations to Larak Island, another 125 miles farther down the gulf and closer to the protection of Iranian...