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...contras no longer seem to be suffering from the severe shortages of equipment and ammunition that plagued them after the U.S. withheld funding for the rebels (Congress eventually allocated $27 million last June for "humanitarian" assistance). Contributions, FDN leaders say, have flooded in from several Latin American countries, as well as from Western Europe and Asia. "If we take the war into the cities," FDN Commander in Chief Enrique Bermúdez told TIME in a rare interview, "we shall destroy the evil regime like an earthquake...
...Meese suggested the possibility of negotiated agreements with the Government "to delay the release of information which would be inimical to the peaceful or rapid solution of a particular operation, or perhaps temporarily to withhold information or even some interviews" that might endanger hostages. News organizations have sometimes voluntarily withheld such information, but CBS and NBC news chiefs were probably expressing the majority view in the media when they turned down Meese's proposed formal agreement...
...That's also the feeling in Britain, where courts must decide on a case-by-case basis whether nutrition and hydration can be denied to patients in a PVS. Courts are also involved in resolving disagreements on whether treatment should be withheld from critically ill patients. Last year, Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, president of the High Court Family Division, ruled that doctors had the right to deny 9-month-old Luke Winston-Jones mechanical ventilation if he stopped breathing, despite his mother's insistence on intervention. Winston-Jones was born with a rare genetic condition that left him with holes...
...terminally ill is not a rare occurrence in the United States. In fact, it is commonplace. A 1990 study by the American Hospital Association estimated that of the 1.3 million individuals who die in a hospital each year, approximately 70 percent of them die when life-sustaining treatment is withheld...
...Name Withheld, Philadelphia...