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CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY After 40-year struggle, the IRS finally agrees to treat it as a religion...
Three weeks ago the Communist regime of East Germany began to insist that foreign diplomats show their passports when they crossed between East and West Berlin. Once more, the government's aim was to win recognition of East Berlin as its capital and force Western countries to treat the Berlin Wall as an international border rather than a demarcation line in a city divided by a postwar agreement. The new rule created a diplomatic furor and led to strong protests from the U.S., Britain and France, which still have authority as the occupying powers in the Western part...
...other networks complained that ABC had no right to treat legitimate news as its own property. ''Anything the President does constitutes news,'' said Lane Venardos, executive producer of special events for CBS. ''Maybe not big news, but news of one form or another.'' Wolper, who staged the glitzy closing ceremonies for the 1984 Olympics, countered that ABC owned the Medals of Liberty presentation and thus had the exclusive right to broadcast the awards. ''It's my medal, and I sold the thing to ABC,'' said Wolper...
...vote, the court restricted the Government's attempt to police the quality of medical care received by severely handicapped infants. Striking down the Administration's controversial ''Baby Doe'' regulations, the Justices ruled that the Department of Health and Human Services had no authority to pressure hospitals to treat handicapped newborns without parental consent. Solicitor General Charles Fried, who last summer argued the Administration's case for upholding the Pennsylvania law, stood up to the judicial barrage at a press conference. ''Some weeks are better than others,'' he shrugged. Seizing on Burger's support for the dissenters in the Pennsylvania decision...
...parents, to hospitals or to state officials who are faced with difficult treatment decisions concerning handicapped children.'' To the court's knowledge, no hospital had refused treatment sought by parents or mandated by the order of a state court, Stevens pointed out. Moreover, hospitals need parental consent to treat a minor, handicapped or not --and since parents are not compelled by law to consent to treatment, federal regulation is intrusive. Confronted by the double setback, President Reagan seemed to confuse the two rulings in his news conference last week. Asked about the Pennsylvania decision, he responded to the Baby...