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A mysterious, icky, smelly brown sludge is washing ashore near Crystal Beach, Fla. Marine biologists don’t know what it is, except that it’s not an oil slick. At first we thought it might be an effluvium from the 94th Congress, but they say it didn’t kill any fish.

Jimmy Carter will never lie to you. He is “personally opposed” to abortion. He thinks the Democratic platform is “a little bit too liberal, too permissive” on this issue. (See “The Week,” August 20.) Now the anti-abortion Lifeletter calls attention to a book called Women in Need, published by Macmillan in 1972. The foreword says: “Each chapter concludes with a series of suggestions for the reader who wants to accept a more active role in making sex education, contraceptives, abortion, and sterilization more freely available in our society…. As a society we must develop positive programs which deliver services in a dignified setting and on a completely voluntary basis. This would be the plea of the five women in need described in this book, the plea of the authors, Jimmy Trussell and Bob Hatcher. I join them in making this plea to the American public.” It is signed “Jimmy Carter Governor of Georgia.”

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A mysterious, icky, smelly brown sludge is washing ashore near Crystal Beach, Fla. Marine biologists don’t know what it is, except that it’s not an oil slick. At first we thought it might be an effluvium from the 94th Congress, but they say it didn’t kill any fish.

Jimmy Carter will never lie to you. He is “personally opposed” to abortion. He thinks the Democratic platform is “a little bit too liberal, too permissive” on this issue. (See “The Week,” August 20.) Now the anti-abortion Lifeletter calls attention to a book called Women in Need, published by Macmillan in 1972. The foreword says: “Each chapter concludes with a series of suggestions for the reader who wants to accept a more active role in making sex education, contraceptives, abortion, and sterilization more freely available in our society…. As a society we must develop positive programs which deliver services in a dignified setting and on a completely voluntary basis. This would be the plea of the five women in need described in this book, the plea of the authors, Jimmy Trussell and Bob Hatcher. I join them in making this plea to the American public.” It is signed “Jimmy Carter Governor of Georgia.”