Word: sword
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, one question must be answered. Whose child is Baby M. to be? Sympathies can be divided, the infant cannot. Solomon's threatened sword will no longer bring a simple answer. Deciding her fate will require all of Judge Sorkow's compassion, sense and ability to appraise clearly the issues involved. In March the baby will have her first birthday, almost certainly before she has her last name. It is unconscionable, unacceptable for her, but the questions her case raises are painful and daunting. When the opportunities that technology provides bring dilemmas in their wake, technology rarely provides answers...
...guerrillas were still demanding a coalition government and the removal of U.S. bases, while the government was offering only a package of social and economic reforms, including "amnesty with honor." If the talks break down, Aquino has already warned that she will not hesitate to "take up the sword...
...knight has been Galahad, Don Quixote and every tin soldier, in Robert Louis Stevenson's couplet, "With different uniforms and drills/ Among the bedclothes, through the hills." The chevalier now answers the roll call as Rambo and G.I. Joe. He wears camouflage, may carry an UZI instead of a sword and has a way of setting off unintended explosions of controversy wherever he appears...
...countries. In a ceremony that opened a medical center in Cape Province, Botha called sanctions "anti-South African legislation." He added that "the U.S. has already declared an economic war against us for the most absurd and sanctimonious reasons. In doing so, they have yet again taken up the sword against us on behalf of the Soviet Union and its goals in this region. I find it revolting." As others find apartheid, which is why the corporate exodus from South Africa is certain to increase...
...that It is out, can King change himself? In the next 14 months he will make three attempts by publishing novels outside the Pop Dread belfry. The Eyes of the Dragon, just completed, is an Arthurian sword-and-sorcery epic written for Naomi, who read Carrie and has since refused to venture into any of her father's other books. Tommyknockers, still being revised, is a sci-fi epic set in the post-Chernobyl era. "It's about how our ability to make gadgets outraces the moral ability" is all King is willing to disclose. Misery, just about completed...