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That could some day become a standard question among men and women. Writing in the British journal Lancet last week, Researchers Christer Bergquist, Sven Johan Nillius and Leif Wide of the University Hospital of Uppsala, Sweden, reported progress toward an unusual goal: the development of a nasal spray contraceptive. In their work, they used a derivative of a hormone known as LRH (for luteinizing hormone- releasing hormone). In high daily doses the experimental chemical inhibits ovulation by curtailing the secretion of still other hormones called gonadotropins, essential for the maturing and release of the eggs...
...Providence Journal-Bulletin two years ago sued the FBI, demanding that it make public 7,000 pages of transcripts from bugs placed in the Providence office of Mafia Boss Raymond Patriarca in the 1960s. To Patriarca's dismay, a judge ruled that disclosure was warranted under the Freedom of Information Act. But last week the decision was overturned by the appeals court, which cited a law prohibiting the release of illegally obtained evidence. Said the don: "Justice always comes through...
...well as Newsday and, now, the Courant) is his way of breaking into the New York-Washington news axis. Chandler says it is merely good business. Yet during the past year he has taken out full-page ads in the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal to reprint some notable Los Angeles Times stories and demonstrate his newspaper's quality. "I'm trying to be a salesman for the West Coast," says Chandler. "We do not yet receive the recognition that...
Yant's troubles started in May 1978 when, after only five months on the job he directed an eight-part News-Journal expose of corruption in the powerful Richland County sheriffs office, run with an iron hand for 15 years by Thomas E Weikel. The series resulted in a whirl of indictments against the sheriff and several deputies on 62 counts, including theft in office, assault and civil rights violations...
Yant's dusting, however, began rattling a few too many skeletons, and even some of his supporters thought he was becoming overzealous. On the same day that the News-Journal printed a reader's congratulatory letter to Yant, Publisher Harry Horvitz fired him. Said Horvitz-"I questioned his responsibility...