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While the ruling does not directly threaten the fundamental right to an abortion granted under the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, the court divided over the practical consequences for the 4 million women who rely on Title X ) funding. In his majority opinion, Chief Justice William Rehnquist contended that the ban on abortion counseling leaves a woman "in no different position than she would have been if the government had not enacted Title X." Blackmun, who had penned the Roe decision, differed sharply, pointing to the 1988 regulation that requires clinic staff members to answer all abortion inquiries with...
...most for their resistance effort is money. Vestal's movement has set up a scheme to undercut the $137 million annual headquarters budget and siphon funds into moderate causes. But so far only 140 congregations have responded to the effort; their projected donations of $4 million this year hardly threaten the Baptist money machine. Whatever the long-term threat in Atlanta this week, fundamentalist president Chapman insists, "I feel very optimistic...
...door of the holy shrine of Najaf," recalls Hajj Hattin. "Then they began looting all the deserted homes. They shot people at random in front of the crowds." Hajj Mohammed remembers a helicopter gunship shooting at civilians in the streets of Najaf. Iraqi soldiers "went into schools to threaten small children into giving the names of relatives they could accuse of being rebels," he says. "If the child did not answer, they shot him and his family." Ahmed Ali still shudders at the memory of seeing people massacred by troops, their bodies left to rot in a schoolyard until dogs...
...TIME story, at least 10 attorneys and six private detectives were unleashed by Scientology and its followers in an effort to threaten, harass and discredit me. Last Oct. 12, not long after I began this assignment, I planned to lunch with Eugene Ingram, the church's leading private eye and a former cop. Ingram, who was tossed off the Los Angeles police force in 1981 for alleged ties to prostitutes and drug dealers, had told me that he might be able to arrange a meeting with church boss David Miscavige. Just hours before the lunch, the church's "national trial...
...world was awakening to an unfolding ecological calamity, Japan was defiantly importing such environmentally sensitive items as ivory and tropical timbers without apparent regard for the consequences. More recently, however, Japan has begun to turn around. The nation imposed a moratorium on ivory imports, altered fishing practices that threaten sea life, and has begun to discuss reducing its consumption of tropical woods. Part of the credit for the change must go to Yoichi Kuroda, a Japanese environmental activist who exposed the mayhem wrought by Japan's hunger for timber...