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...World Review, 1981, by Dr. Christopher Tietze, the pre-eminent expert on international abortion. Among its findings: 9% of the world's 4.4 billion people live in countries that totally forbid abortion (among them: Spain, the Dominican Republic and Indonesia); 38% live in nations where abortion on request is allowed, at least in the first trimester of pregnancy; the rest live under laws that allow abortions under conditions that range from saving the mother's life to economic hardship. In the past 15 years, 17 countries (including Canada, India, Norway and Great Britain) have liberalized their abortion laws...
...living on meager government-supplied cereal rations as they cope with the twin catastrophes of flood and drought. For the first time in its 31-year history, the Chinese Communist regime has been forced to issue a circumspect appeal for large-scale international aid. So extraordinary is the request, and so explosive its implications, that both Chinese and United Nations officials have been trying to keep the revelation as muffled as possible...
Vandals have hampered the efforts of five anonymous Law School students who distributed leaflets this week encouraging students to request a refund for the portion of their health service fee used to pay for abortions...
...ACSR, however, has received "no formal or specific request" from the Corporation to review the current investment policy, Milton Katz, chairman of the ACSR and Stimson Professor of Law, said yesterday...
Harvard can deny GSA's request. That would be legal; it would not be right. The University should affirm its commitment to all students by adopting a policy of nondiscrimination on the basis of sexual orientation...