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...patient is mentally competent and wants to refuse treatment, there is no reason to contrudict their wishes, the doctors said. If a patient is no longer competent, for example sanile, doctors should honor a "living will," or written testament to their wishes, if it was made while they were competent, the article adds...
...Leon's mother and Novelist Pete Dexter, 40, who in God's Pocket (Random House; 274 pages; $14.95) turns a random incident into a picaresque romp. Jeanie Hubbard Scarpato, still pretty in middle age despite a life that has "had more sorry chapters than the Old Testament," refuses to believe that the son she raised on her own from infancy after her first husband's death would simply let something fall on his head. Mickey, her current spouse, cannot disagree; he feels unworthy of Jeanie, probably with cause. He drives a refrigerated truck and sells stolen meat...
...members visiting El Salvador. They told the West Germans: "Yes, it is true that our election is imperfect compared with the ones in your country. When you go to campaign in the small towns and isolated hamlets, you don't have to leave behind your last will and testament because that trip may be your last. Isn't the risk we run in this campaign proof of our democratic calling?" It is true. Asking for the vote, giving the vote, believing in the vote-all imply a serious risk. And hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans are ready...
...practice their religion as Church of Christ tradition dictates. The 13,000 Churches of Christ in the U.S. are noted for monitoring and disciplining the lives of their 1.3 million adult members. As the elders testified, Churches of Christ seek to apply literally every word of the New Testament. In Matthew 18: 15-17, Jesus Christ lays out the procedure for dealing with a wrongdoer. The final step: "If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile...
...sound judgement. For example, McGovern was among the first Congressmen to criticize U.S. intervention in Vietnam, an opposition which became the overriding issue in the 1972 campaign. McGovern's early calls for the recognition of mainland China and peaceful coexistence with Fidel Castro's Cuba have also become testament to McGovern's foresight in foreign policy matters...