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February 15,1983
Warped
by Scott McCullar
EVERY CORNING JUAN CARLOS AND
HIS f'lULE CLIMB THE FOUNTAIN
SIDE OF THEIR SMALL SOUTH
AMERICAN COUNTRy TO PICK
COFFEE BEANS FROM
PLANTS THERE
YOU CAN IMAGINE HOW THAT CAN
GET BORING REAL FAST, LIVING
EVERY DAY OF YOUR LIFE PICKING
COFFEE BEANS. SO TUAN HAS TO
GET REALLY WIRED ON COFFEE
BEFORE HE CAN FACE ANOTHER
DAY OF IT AND LEAVE THE HUT
AND THAT MAKES IT DIFFICULT
FOR HIM TO BE TOO CAREFUL
ABOUT WHAT BEANS HE PICKS.
OLD ONES, PRY ONES, EATEN ONES,
ROCKS ON THE GROUND, HE DOESN'T
CARE. HE JUST PICKS.
AND THIS IS THE CROP
THAT GOES INTO
HIGH PERK "
THE COFFEE BRAND THAT
DOESN'T GO SO MUCH FOR
FLAVOR AS EFFECT.
%
WHEN YOU'RE ONLY IN IT FOR THAT
"high-as-the MOUNTAINS"FEELING.
Defector’s parents
get letter from son
i./i
Parent notification is issue
Birth control plan fought
United Press International
ST. LOUIS — The soldier
who defected to North Korea
last year has written his family
for the first time, his parents
said today.
Joe White’s father, Norval
White, said his son gave no indi
cation in the letter, which the
family received Friday, why he
left his post in South Korea to
defect.
“The letter contains only
assurances that he is well and
expressions of love and concern
for family and friends,” White
and his wife, Kathleen, said in a
statement.
White, 21, from St. Louis, was
patrolling the demilitarized
zone the morning of Aug. 28
when he walked up to a gate
along the border and shot off
the lock, a military report said
after the incident. Soon after,
another soldier saw White, car
rying his rifle, on the other side
of the border.
North Korean officials said
White defected. His parents
vigorously denied the claim un
til the Army said in September
its investigation showed White
willingly entered North Korea.
The Defense Department since
has listed White as a defector.
The elder White refusij
divulge the exact conteniil
son’s letter, which wasj
Oct. 27 and datelinedl
gyang, capital of NorthliJ
White, who worksataG
al Motors Corp. trucks
plant, called the WasW
Po$t late Saturday to i
the letter. He toldtheiwj
er his son wanted a dicli
and an almanac.
“We’re going to try to|
him that dictionary
nac,” he said. “We’ll geij
and just send themtojoelf
care of Pyongyang, I
Korea. That’s all ivehavtj
United Press International
WASHINGTON — A lawyer
for a family planning group
urged a judge, Monday, to block
the administration’s plan for
federally funded clinics to tell
parents when their teenage
daughters get prescription birth
control devices.
John Nields, attorney for the
National Family Planning and
Reproductive Health Associa
tion, said the new regidation will
discourage teenagers from seek
ing contraceptives, but not from
engaging in sexual activities.
“The U.S. Congress has uni
formly and consistently rejected
the requirement of parental
notification,” Nields told U.S.
District Judge Thomas Flannery
in asking him to block the rule
that takes effect on Feb. 25.
“The Department (of Health
and Human Services) has no
power to make that requirement
on its own.”
Flannery did not rule im
mediately on the dispute, but
said he would make a decision
this week on the request for a
preliminary injunction to block
the rules.
At issue in the case is an HHS
regulation that federally funded
clinics notify parents within 10
working days when girls 17
years old or younger are pre
scribed birth control pills,
diaphragms or intrauterine de
vices. 5,000 clinics and more
than 400,000 teenage girls
would be affected, family plan
ning officials say.
Justice Department lawyer
Theodore Hirt told Flannery
the government has the “right to
impose limits’' when it funds ser
vices.
“It has the right to set condi
tions on those services,” he said,
arguing the new regulation is in
line with the intentions of Con-
tives is perhaps the most practic
al, concrete way of encouraging
family participation,” Hirt said.
Mom loses three kids
Planned Parenthood Federa
tion of America and the Health
Association went to court in a
move to stop the regulation,
arguing it is unconstitutional
and could adversely affect hun
dreds of thousands of teenage
girls.
to ‘crib death’ syndromi
gress.
He also said parents have an
important interest in knowing
what medication their children
are taking.
“A notice to the parent that a
minor has received contracep-
Nields said Congress passed
an amendment in 1981 for cli
nics receiving federal money to
“encourage ” family par icipa-
tion, not mandate it. He said
Congress specifically rejected
proposals to require parental
notification.
United Press International
DALTON, Ga — Relatives of
a woman who lost three babies to
sudden infant death syndrome
in three years say they learned to
accept the mysterious deaths
spanning five generations as the
will of God.
Doctors say their investiga
tion into the family’s 12 infant
deaths may lead to the first evi
dence that sudden infant death
syndrome (SIDS) has genetic
origins.
About 9,000 American babies
die each year from SIDS — the
most common cause of death
among infants between the new
born stage and 1 year of age,
officials say.
“My grandmother says the
babies all died in their sleep. I
guess my family learned to
accept it because there was no
thing they could do about it. But
it’s hard for any mom
.h ( cpt tin <leath of onti
own,” Terrie LeeGreesonj
Greeson’s 3-week-oiill
died last week of SIDS-
third baby the Greesom
lost to what is commonlyi
as “crib death."
Included among thef
other deaths were fourl
born to Greeson’s greawi
grandmother and two
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