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...accountable, just as the Nuremberg trials found individuals personally responsible for crimes committed against humanity." This year the march drew more than 60,000. As their own symbols, pro-choice advocates often display coat hangers-grim reminders of the illegal and unsafe abortions to which women would have to resort if the court's ruling were superseded. Says Planned Parenthood President Faye Wattleton: "The fundamental principles of individual privacy are under the most serious assault since the days of McCarthyism...
Most Western analysts, however, doubted that the Soviets would intervene directly, except as a last resort. If the Kremlin did decide on an armed response, it would probably rely first on Polish security units. If that effort failed, the Soviets might ultimately be forced to move in. Observed a top State Department official: "If there is a major crackdown internally, I think there would be fighting, and if there was fighting, you know what comes next...
...agency cited several problems with the proposal. First was concern over when and how doctors would decide to implant the plastic and aluminum device. The Utah team said it would try the procedure only as a last resort, when a patient's heart could not take over for the heart-lung pump used during surgery. But the FDA suggested that the doctors first consider using a less drastic mechanical aid, the so-called assist device. This piece of equipment leaves the natural heart intact but takes over the operation of one of the pumping chambers, usually the left ventricle...
...stubborn mood extends to the Red Sea coast, where two Israeli resort settlements have sprung up between Eilat, at the top of the Gulf of Aqaba, and Sharm el Sheikh, near the Sinai's southern tip. The new spas, havens for Israeli tourists, foreign sightseers and hippies, are tolerant to a degree unheard of in Israel. Sunbathers routinely strip naked on the placid beaches. Hashish, smuggled from Egypt, is freely available. Many of the Israeli hoteliers and other developers would like to stay on after April 1982, but the Egyptian entrepreneurs waiting in the wings have resisted all proposals...
...government harassment of its advisers. It might also launch scattered peaceful protests, such as putting up posters or handing out leaflets denouncing the police action. Having tacitly accepted Jaruzelski's Feb. 12 call for "90 days of calm," however, Solidarity's national leaders were probably reluctant to resort to provocative strikes at this juncture -particularly in the wake of Moscow's menacing communique...