1980-1989 Comeback

In Reagan's Washington and on Gordon Gecko's Wall Street, it was a time of risk and reward. In the end, the payoffs were big

NATION

THE BATTLE OVER ABORTION A question of "life" or "choice"

"We must do everything we can under our constitutional system to stop the killing of unborn children. We're talking about life and death." So said Carl Anderson, legislative aide to Republican Senator Jesse Helms, at a Conservative Political Action Conference a week ago in Washington, D.C. The words were no less harsh at a seminar of 80 women held in a Manhattan town house. Said Harriet Pilpel, general counsel for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a privately funded family-planning service: "If the bills pending before Congress pass and are not...

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