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...week-old strike by 1,900 mine workers against Pittston Coal in Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky began as a model of genteel labor relations, with strikers staging peaceful sit-ins and picketing politely. But last week the increasingly bitter standoff, which has grown to include more than 37,000 wildcat strikers throughout coal country, turned into an old- fashioned, ugly war. A car bomb exploded at a Virginia coal company, and strikers hurled rocks at coal-carrying trucks near the entrance to Sydney Coal in Kentucky...
...facilities and prohibiting state employees from performing abortions was upheld on the ground that it "leaves a pregnant woman with the same choices as if the State had chosen not to operate any public hospitals at all." Another provision, requiring physicians to perform tests to determine whether a 20-week-old fetus could survive outside the womb, was also upheld, in part on the ground that such testing "permissibly furthers the State's interest in protecting potential human life...
Capitol Hill lawmakers are receiving cassettes of Abortion: For Survival, a half-hour video produced by the Fund for the Feminist Majority. It is intended to counter The Silent Scream, a 1985 antiabortion film that shows a twelve- week-old fetus being swept from the womb. The new video depicts an actual abortion that lasts 84 seconds and shows two aborted embryos, amounting to about two tablespoons of blood and tissue. The point is to illustrate that what is removed during most abortions -- more than 90% are carried out in the first twelve weeks of pregnancy -- is not the near...
...experiment took place without publicity last June, and was only recently described at a medical meeting in Paris. The operation was performed when the child, David, was a 30-week-old fetus. So far, the results have been remarkable. Though he has been confined since birth to a germ-free flexible plastic bubble in order to protect him from the outside world, David, now seven months old, appears to have an immune system that is on the mend. If all goes well, David could leave his sterile prison by summer's end. Though his survival is not assured, the experiment...
...Dinah Shore and Frank Perdue square off in what history may record as the Great American Chicken War. Looking to outstrut each other as they winged into New York City last week, both hawked new supermarket products -- cooked chicken, prepared in a variety of cuts and seasonings and all dubbed fresh despite an avowed ten-to- 17-day shelf life. Ducking questions about whether a week-old roast chicken could be considered truly fresh, Perdue and Shore made it plain that in this case the term means not frozen and, presumably, not spoiled. "I even ate some that...