Embargo on Haiti Seen as Step, Not aSufficient Pressure
Editorial arguing the U N embargo on Haiti may pressure the military regime to reinstate Aristide. It warns Brazil blocked enforcement teeth, suggests naval blockade if talks stall, notes suffering Haitians and limits of current measures. Reprinted from The Sacramento Bee.
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Haiti
U.N. Security Council
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Raoul Cedras
Aristide
Cedras
United Nations
Brazil
Security Council
Dominican Republic
Hemisphere
United States
U.S. Coast Guard
Supreme Court
Big bang label sparks contest to rename universe origin
An astronomy magazine invites readers to propose a new term for the universe's origin, challenging the widely used but disliked phrase big bang. The piece argues the debate mirrors culture and reverence around Genesis and urges keeping the term.
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Earth
Quote on women leaders spans Canada Turkey and US pick
AP quotes praise for women in high office amid crisis. La Nouvelle Republique du Centre Ouest cites views on female prime ministers in Canada and Turkey. Clinton announces Ruth Bader Ginsburg for the Supreme Court after a favorable encounter.
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la Nouvelle Republique du Centre
Ouest
Tours
France
Canada
Turkey
Clinton
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Supreme Court
Opinions and Analysis on Ridiculousness and Media
A columnist vents on irritants from NASA’s space toilet cost to the Home Shopping Network push. He cites the Curmudge-O-Meter readings on topics like Thornburgh copying costs, Galileo’s sun, RTC missteps, Guinier backlash, and Mike Tyson prison letter, mocking bureaucratic logic and media forums.
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NASA
Dan Quayle
Federal Communications Commission
Mike Tyson
Guinier
Medical tests may discriminate by cost in infant spina bifida study
Nat Hentoff reviews a 1983 Pediatrics report from University of Oklahoma researchers on 69 spina bifida infants between 1977 and 1982. The study split treatment into full vigorous care versus supportive care only, guiding outcomes by anticipated quality of life and societal support, with 24 deaths among those denied active treatment and litigation alleging disability discrimination under Section 504.
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Nat Hentoff
Enterprise Association
Pediatrics
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Stonewall Jackson Smith
Frieda Smith
Stoney
Oklahoma Medical Center
National Legal Center For the
Medically Dependent & the Disabled
American Civil Liberties Union
U.S. Supreme Court
John M. Freeman
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Ban on tobacco use in minor league baseball praised
This editorial commends banning smokeless tobacco and spitting on ballfields, noting health risks and role model effects. It argues the move improves public health, personal cleanliness, and the game’s image, urging the major leagues to follow suit for a cleaner national pastime.
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