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...legal operations now take place annually in specially designated, state-run hospitals. But because of intense church opposition, many of the approved clinics do not perform the operations. Health officials estimate that as many as 600,000 of Italy's abortions are still done illegally. The grim cost: some 2,000 to 5,000 deaths per year...
Sutcliffe pleaded guilty to seven counts of attempted murder. Then, as his wife looked on with distress from a nearby seat and grim-faced relatives of the victims strained to hear, he was questioned about 13 counts of murder. Occasionally stumbling nervously over his words, he responded: "Not guilty to murder, but guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility." Thus in less than ten minutes, the chilling admission was heard in a tangled case of multiple murder that had claimed the lives of 13 Yorkshire and Lancashire women since 1975. Before the suspect was arrested last January, more...
...Grim tribes of sociologists have reported back from office and factory that most workers find their labor mechanical, boring, imprisoning, stultifying, repetitive, dreary, heartbreaking. In his 1972 book Working, Studs Terkel began: "This book, being about work, is, by its very nature, about violence-to the spirit as well as to the body." The historical horrors of industrialization (child labor, Dickensian squalor, the dark satanic mills) translate into the 20th century's robotic busywork on the line, tightening the same damned screw on the Camaro's firewall assembly, going nuts to the banging, jangling Chaplinesque whirr of modern...
...aforementioned nonsense consumes all of about seven minutes, and the pace never lets up. The plot becomes increasingly intricate, demanding several rapid costume changes. But for all its potential for--and occasional use of--slap stick, What the Butler Saw becomes a fascinating Black Comedy. Joe Orton takes a grim view of the psychiatric wall-paper we all use to cover our infirmities and our sins. With a uniformly excellent cast, the play transcends its tenor of cocktail-party chatter...
...Washington: "A Saudi production cut from 10 million to 5 million bbl. a day would cut Saudi revenues in half-from the current $120 billion a year to around $60 billion. But official Saudi spending is at the rate of $96 billion a year, and thereby hangs a grim tale for the Saudi regime...