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Another antiabortion setback...
This was the second recent setback for the pro-life movement. Three weeks ago, a series of Supreme Court rulings solidly supported a woman's right to have an abortion. Said Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon, a leader of the pro-choice forces: "This is the end of any serious effort" by the antiabortion movement. Perhaps, but still to come is legislation pushed by Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina outlawing abortion. This bill faces a Senate filibuster and serious trouble in the House. Even if it passed Congress, it would face problems in the courts. Nonetheless, notes Senator...
...Stadium project received another setback this spring, when a Law School student charged that the University had overlooked a federal law requiring that newly-refurbished facilities be made accessible to the handicapped. The University altered its plans to include 30 permanent seats and 65 temporary seats for the disabled, as well as reserved parking spaces and a wheelchair ramp. Contractors started work in March on the alterations, which will cost about...
...setback sent the Crimson home disappointed. But though the seven seniors who led the squad graduate tomorrow without a trip to Omaha under their belts, they will have two Eastern League titles in four years. And the knowledge that they played on a team that wouldn't quit...
...Israelis, the yearlong war has brought few of the benefits they were expecting. To be sure, the P.L.O. fighting force was driven out of Beirut last August, and the organization has not recovered from its military setback-nor can it in the foreseeable future. A senior P.L.O. official now in Damascus remarked recently, "I miss Beirut. We could breathe there." But last week P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat, sounding more belligerent than at any time since his departure from Beirut last September, told a group of P.L.O. officers in Syria that "effective war is the only available means for redrawing...