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...novel The Color Purple. The movie's huge commercial success -- and the controversy that arose over its portrait of black males -- ensured Walker's public renown as a woman with a cause, an author who, when she has a message, would rather write a book than call Western Union. Indeed, her poetry and fiction have always been, to some extent, polemical. Now that her potential audience has increased many times over, Walker, 45, has become more forthright about the burden of her prose: the horrors that whites have historically imposed on blacks and that men have inflicted on women. Perhaps...
Mallightco bought a 4% interest in an oil-and-gas well known as Sabine Lake Prospect for $9,120. On the very day the purchase became final -- May 10, 1988 -- Mallightco resold the interest to Union Rheinische Petroleum Inc., a West German company, for $440,000. The well at the time showed some prospect of becoming a commercial producer but has since been plugged. Wright's trustee then sold the Speaker's interest in Mallightco for $350,000, less $80,000 to pay off debts to the firm -- a handsome profit from a hopeless dry hole. Wright insists he knew...
...then unexceptional. The number in the U.S. each year has leveled off at around 1.6 million, up from 744,600 in 1973 -- about 30% of all pregnancies, excluding stillbirths and miscarriages. (Comparable figures are 14% for Canada, 13% for West Germany, 27% for Japan and 68% for the Soviet Union.) One-fifth of American women above the age of 15 have had one. According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a research organization, most are young and single -- 81% are unmarried at the time, and 62% are under 25. More than one-fourth ( are teenagers. More than two-thirds say they...
...Activists dumped 200,000 letters at the Justice Department last week, urging Attorney General Dick Thornburgh to drop his request to the court that it overturn Roe. "This has for the past 15 years been a legal struggle," said Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. "It has now become a political struggle...
...mobilize public support for Roe, pro-choice groups like NARAL, Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union expect to spend about $2.5 million through June on print and broadcast advertising. And at a meeting in March called by Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown, the editors of 16 women's magazines agreed to step up their coverage of the abortion dispute. "I feel we're not holding our ground the way we should," says Brown...