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Tuesday, July 11,1989
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Pregnancies terminated af
ter the 20th week represent only about 1 percent of the
1.3 million abortions performed each year in the
United States, yet these are a focal point in the debate
about legalized abortion.
A prominent part of the Supreme Court’s abortion
ruling last week, such late-term abortions heighten the
question of when a fetus becomes a viable human being.
Based on Centers of Disease Control statistics for
1985, the last year complete numbers are available, only
about 13,280 abortions in the United States were per
formed after the 20th week of pregnancy.
The vast majority of abortions, about 90 percent, are
performed by the 15th week, long before viability of the
fetus is a biological possibility.
According to studies by CDC and others, most of the
relative handful who seek late-term abortions, about 73
percent, are under age 24. A majority of them are in
their teens. Most are unmarried.
One survey showed such women often are reluctant
to tell parents or boyfriends of their pregnancy, and
many have problems arranging abortions because of
money or transportation. Some didn’t realize they were
pregnant in the early weeks. And a major concern for
about a third of those seeking late abortions is conceal
ing the fact they are sexually active.
“A lot of them just hope it’ll go away,” said Dr. Rich
ard Berkowitz, chairman of the department of obstet
rics and reproductive sciences at Mt. Sinai in New York.
Although the numbers are small, when compared to
all abortions performed, the late-term cases create a
nightmare for doctors who must deal with the uncer
tainty of fetal age.
The issue inflames emotions among anti-abortion
groups who believe infants capable of sustaining life are
being killed.
And it is an issue that attracted a major share of at
tention in the Supreme Court’s ruling last week that
gave states power to impose new restrictions on the
right to have an abortion.
CDC statistics show that 3.6 percent of those seeking
abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy are under
the age of 15. The largest number, 36.7 percent, are be
tween 15 and 19 years of age, and 32.8 percent are aged
20 to 24.
Abortions after the 20th week among women aged
25-30 account for 13 percent and those over age 30
only 11.9 percent. The age of the woman was not given
in 2 percent of the late-term cases.
Late abortions frequently are chosen by the over 30
age group after tests show the fetus has a defect, such as
Down’s syndrome.
A national survey by the Alan Guttmacher Institute,
a private agency that monitors reproduction trends,
showed that the young, poor and black are more apt to
obtain abortions after the 16th week of pregnancy.
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BEIJING (AP) — China’s Com
munist Party sought to restore its
tainted image Monday by publiciz
ing a nationwide crackdown on cor
ruption in its ranks — one of the de
mands of the student movement
crushed by the government.
New party General Secretary
Jiang Zemin also met two foreign
delegations, from Romania and
Ethiopia, in a show of diplomacy as
usual despite icy relations with West
ern governments protesting China’s
bloody suppression of unarmed
demonstrators.
Every major daily newspaper car
ried lengthy articles Monday on the
expulsion and other punishment of
party members caught embezzling,
profiteering and abusing their
power.
An end to official corruption was
one of the calls of student-led dem
onstrators. They also demanded
freedom of the press and a dialogue
with government officials.
The People’s Daily, official
mouthpiece of the 47.7 million-
member party that is the world’s big
gest political organization, said 452
officials in the southern province of
Guizhou were expelled for corrup
tion in the first half of 1989.
On Sunday, it was reported that a
local party leader in Guizhou was
sentenced to death for selling boot
leg liquor.
The government, which ordered
troops into Beijing on June 3-4 to
crush the student movement, now
“O,
'rganizers of the
rebellion used anti
corruption slogans to incite
the uncertain public.”
— People’s Daily,
Chinese newspaper
has seized the corruption issue as its
own.
“The recent turmoil and rebellion
included many people because some
party members, cadres and espe
cially a minority of leaders were en
gaged in corrupt practices which
made the people very dissatisfied,”
the People’s Daily said.
“Organizers of the rebellion used
anti-corruption slogans to incite the
uncertain public,” it said.
Among other cases reported
Monday, the vice chairman of the
commodity prices committee in
western Gansu province was ex
pelled from the party for making
$170,000 by profiteering in sugar.
Another Gansu official was pun
ished for using public funds to buy a
private home and a third sold state-
supplied medicine and used the
money to hold an elaborate funeral
for his wife.
Almost all high-level diplomatic
contacts between China and the
West have been frozen because of
the military attack on protesters and
arrests of more than 2,000 people
across the country.
China continued to attack the
United States on Monday, with the
Beijing Daily saying the United
States, with its discrimination against
blacks and other minorities, has no
right to condemn China’s human
rights record
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from crashing through atmosphere
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—Ten years after Skylab created
fear and fascination with its fiery
plunge from orbit, NASA is racing
to retrieve another giant satellite —
this one as big as a bus — before it
falls to Earth.
The satellite is being pushed by
solar pressure and tugged by Earth’s
gravity toward a predicted crash
through the atmosphere in January.
Experts say as many as 100 one-
pound chunks of debris could sur
vive the blazing reentry and reach
the Earth, with a remote possibility
of people getting hurt.
Not many Americans are in dan
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Long Duration Exposure Facility,
passes over only Hawaii, South Flor
ida and the southern tip of Texas.
Nor are Western Europeans, Soviets
or most Chinese threatened.
LDEF’s path covers all territory
between 28.5 degrees north and
28.5 degrees south of the equator —
mainly water, but also most of Af
rica, South America, India, South
east Asia and Australia.
To try to save the satellite and its
cargo of experiments, NASA plans
to launch the space shuttle Columbia
and a crew of five Dec. 18 to pull in
the errant satellite with the shuttle’s
60-foot robot arm, stow it in the
spacecraft’s cargo bay and take it
home.
The main reason for retrieving
the satellite is not to save lives, be
cause officials feel the danger is
slight. Rather, they want the space
craft back to find out what has hap
pened to it and its experiment dur
ing nearly six years in space.
The information is of interest to
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nent space station Freedom and to
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biting “Star Wars” missile defense
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posure to the same elements that
have battered LDEF for years.
If predictions are wrong or if so
lar flare activity increases in the com
ing months, LDEF could reenter the
atmosphere and break up before the
shuttle can get there.
“It will be close, but it looks like
we’ll be OK with a December
launch,” said William H. Kinard, the
LDEF project’s chief scientist at NA
SA’s Langley Research Center.
If LDEF does reenter, it isn’t ex
pected to be the sensation that Sky-
lab was when it dashed through the
atmosphere on July 11, 1979, rain
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Army has temporarily grounded
more than 3,400 UH1 Huey heli
copters so a defective part installed
in some of the choppers can be re
placed, a spokesman said Saturday.
The spokesman, Lt. Col. John
Chapla, said, “The grounding was
ordered following confirmation that
a part that does not conform to the
Army’s manufacturing standards
may have been installed in some he
licopters.”
He said the part, known as a uni
versal control lever, is a component
of the system in UH1H, UH1V and
UH1D series helicopters that en
ables the pilot to control the aircraft.
“Army analysis indicated that the
part showed hydrogen embrittle
ment, a defect that leaves the part
subject to potential failure,” Chapla
said. “Failure of the part could cause
loss of control of the aircraft.”
The spokesman said the U.S.
Army has about 3,000 UH1H Hueys
as well as 400 to 500 UH1V helicopt
ers specially equipped for medical
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