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...plug." Accordingly, when Brophy failed to respond to therapy, his wife Patricia asked hospital officials to remove the feeding tube that kept him alive. They refused on ethical grounds, and she then filed suit, asserting that her husband had a right to die a natural death. The result: a landmark ruling last September from the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ordering removal of the feeding tube. Eight days after it was taken away, Brophy died...
More than a year ago, when a Houston jury ordered Texaco to pay Pennzoil an incredible $10.5 billion to settle their legal battle over a 1984 merger fight, many experts were convinced that the landmark judgment would be drastically reduced on appeal. But so far Texaco's lawyers have been unable to defuse this financial time bomb that threatens the survival of the third largest U.S. oil company. A Texas court of appeals last week upheld a staggering $8.5 billion of the original judgment...
...landmark speech, the Soviet leader offers a stunning catalog of troubles that face his country. He calls for new policies, but makes clear that nothing that would change the Communist Party' s role or power will be allowed. -- The U. S. bars travel to Lebanon, and Terry Waite vanishes. -- A bungled coup tests President Aquino as Filipinos prepare to vote on a constitution...
...international currency markets, the action was only a shade less hectic. For the first time ever, the U.S. dollar slid below the landmark price of 150 ( yen to the dollar in Tokyo before rebounding to 153.25 yen at week's end, marginally higher than a week earlier. In Bonn, the dollar hit a 6 1/2-year low of 1.81 deutsche marks before microscopically edging back to close at 1.815, a 1.8% decline from the previous week...
Last week, in a landmark decision for working mothers, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the California law by a 6-to-3 vote, ruling that a state is permitted to require an employer to provide special job protection for workers temporarily disabled by pregnancy. Realistic in its scope and modest in its rhetoric, the decision could have enormous impact on the growing social dilemma caused by the influx of women into the job market over the past 25 years: the heavy burden of holding down a job and having children at the same time. "It's a wonderful victory," said...