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Soon after her illegitimate son was born two years ago, "Jane Roe," a divorced Dallas bar waitress, put him up for adoption. At almost the same time, "Mary Doe," an Atlanta housewife, bore a child who was also promptly adopted. Both women had asked for abortions and, like thousands of others, they had been turned down. Unlike most of the others, though, Roe and Doe went to court to attack the state statutes that frustrated them. The resulting legal fights took too long for either woman to get any practical benefit. But last week they had the satisfaction of hearing...
...haunting reminder to a government all too anxious to forget. On walls, trees and newspaper kiosks around Buenos Aires last week, 30,000 painted human silhouettes were pasted up; each bore the name and age of one of the more than 6,000 civilians who disappeared during the 1970s, apparently at the hands of the ruthless military. Then the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, the group that has tenaciously been protesting those disappearances for six years, launched a special 24-hour march of resistance. As onlookers applauded, 5,000 protesters marched amid a sea of waving banners, crying, "We want...
...such, it bore all the proper trappings, Racism, to name one. Solidarity in the face of outside protest, to name another. Most notably, this club was marked by hypocrisy--in terms of the public stance that "standards" alone, not discrimination, were keeping the excluded Blacks out the door. "There is not a single Negro player with major league possibilities," the Sporting News editorialized at the end of the conspiracy in 1945, widely reflecting the views of the oligarchy of owners that controlled the game. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the imperious commissioner of baseball, took the role of frontman...
...always, there were uplifting vignettes. As Alicia bore down on Houston during the predawn hours of Thursday, Surgeon Denton Cooley, who had finally been able to find a suitable heart donor for a 48-year-old patient, performed a successful transplant. At St. Mary's Hospital in Galveston, the wife of a Coast Guard yeoman seaman gave birth to a baby girl. She was named (what else?) Alicia...
...reason to claim greater control of the magazine's content, the Stern management installed a more conservative and prudent editor, Peter Scholl-Latour, a former television commentator. Says he: "We have readers who are not as far left as is sometimes thought. I do not want to bore them with too much ideology." Scholl-Latour describes the antimissile movement as "a fashionable tendency," and his view is having an impact. Though the magazine continues to report on the movement enthusiastically, an Aug. 4 cover showed a hand holding a rock and said, "Gewalt-nein danke"(Violence-no, thanks...