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...brief also notes that the illegality ofabortion in the 19th century had "differentialimpacts on different races, classes andethnicities of women," says Walkowitz. "Whilemiddle-class women seeking abortions were able toafford a safe and relatively hygienic procedure,poorer women were forced to resort to `back-streetabortions...
...Robertson Davies are among his writing friends. Irving has two other homes, one in Vermont and the other from Vermont but in eastern Long Island. The wood-frame structure had been dismantled, transported to Long Island and restored among the summer retreats of the Northeast's most glamorous resort area. "I'm known as the eccentric bastard who moved to the Hamptons and brought his house with him," says Irving, a man who can take satisfaction in having done things...
From India, the Tibetan government-in-exile condemned the Chinese crackdown and said it feared the Communists would use the riots "as an excuse to resort to more repressive methods." But the bloodshed may increase international pressure on Beijing to start negotiations with the Tibetans. The Dalai Lama, who fled to India in 1959, has accused the Chinese of stalling on proposed talks to make fiercely independent Tibet a self-governing entity "in association" with the People's Republic...
...move came a day after Eastern insisted such a step remained a last resort in the airline's effort to endure the strike, which had strong support from pilots and flight attendants and was costing Eastern an estimated $4 million...
Matell said bankruptcy would be "a course oflast resort." He declined to speculate on how longit would be before Eastern would make such a move...