High-risk Life Death Choices Beset Parents
Parents confront life and death choices when infants depend on respirators and long ICU care. Brandon Crutchfield, born three months premature, survived after four surgeries, raising questions about viability, brain death, and parental will versus medical judgment amid evolving technology.
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Gill Crutchfield
Crutchfield
Brandon Crutchfield
Brandon
John Bray
Women’s and Children’s
Bray
Illinois court rules against Soviet youth asylum case
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled that Walter Polovchak could be returned to his parents to custody if they come to the United States, while noting no immediate need for state ward status. The case centers on Walter, a 15 year old who fled to the US in 1980 seeking asylum from the Soviet Union and asylum rulings remain tied to federal action.
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Springfield
United States
Illinois Supreme Court
Walter Polovchak
Walter
Soviet Union
Yuri Andropov
Chicago Cubs
Henry Mark Holzer
American Civil Liberties Union
U.S
Chicago
Federal Immigration and Naturalization Service
Steven Lubet
Michael
Anna Polovchak
Julian Kulas
Kulas
Ukraine
Joseph C. Mooney
Circus Court
Cook County
State Supreme Court
Mooney
Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis Pleads No Contest
Texas House speaker Gib Lewis, a Democrat from Fort Worth, pleads no contest to failing to file financial disclosure statements. Judge Mace Thurman accepts Travis County DA Ronnie Earle’s recommended $800 fine with no jail, citing Lewis’s voluntary appearance and intent to uphold state reporting laws. Rep. Charles Evans represents Lewis in the brief proceedings.
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Austin
Texas
Gib Lewis
Lewis
Fort Worth
Mace Thurman
Travis County
Ronnie Earle
Thurman
Earle
Lat Am affairs chief replaced by administration
The Reagan administration shuffled its Latin America policy team, moving Langhorne Motley to succeed Thomas O. Enders as assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs. Enders, a 29-year Foreign Service veteran, was reassigned to a major diplomatic post, potentially ambassador to Spain, with specifics not stated. The move appears to bolster national security adviser William P. Clark's influence on Central American policy.
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Washington
Reagan
State Department
Latin America
William P. Clark
Central American
George P. Shultz
Air Force One
Williamsburg
Thomas O. Enders
Langhorne Motley
Brazil
Body of Salvadoran adviser slain in El Salvador flown to U S
Advicer Lieutenant Commander Albert Schaufelberger III, 33, deputy commander of American military advisers in El Salvador, was gunned down in San Salvador. His body arrived at Oceana Naval Air Station Virginia Beach with honor guards and senior Navy officials. The body was later to be flown to Beaufort, South Carolina, as the family gathered at Fripp Island.
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Virginia Beach
el Salvador
Oceana Naval Air Station
Cmdr
Albert Schaufelberger III
San Salvador
Schaufelberger
U.S. Air Force
Nopango
Oceana
U.S
Deane R. Hinton
Navy
Beaufort
S.C
Fripp Island
Barrier Island
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Molly Hawk
Hawk
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Odessa American
Steve Earley
Ilinois
Natalie
Jimmy Carter
Reagan Administration
Circuit Court
Polovchak
Charles Evans
Hurst
Enders
Adviser
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