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Like the Jorges, the woman who gave birth to the children (whose names have been withheld) sought treatment from Dr. Ricardo Asch, a celebrated fertility specialist at the Center for Reproductive Health at the University of California at Irvine (UCI). She and her husband thought their travail had finally ended when, in 1989, she gave birth to twins. Then last month they received a letter from the Jorges' lawyer demanding that the boy and girl undergo genetic testing. "We do not want to unduly disrupt your lives," the letter read without intended irony, "but rather to help facilitate a relationship...
Since the cause of many of those losses was erratic passing, Harvard coach Ihsan Gurdal moved sophomore setter Evan Beachy to the opposite position (left-side hitter) and moved co-captain Abbas Hyderi--usually a passing specialist--in control of the second hit. Hyderi, though shorter than Beachy, is quick enough to run down errant serve receives and set up the spikers...
...view an attack on the island as "a threat to the peace and security" of the region and "of grave concern to the U.S." The Clinton Administration has not spelled out what it would do in case the Chinese civil war turned hot again. Says a China specialist at the State Department: "The folks in Taiwan who might do something rash should not assume we would come to their aid, and the folks in Beijing who might do something militarily should not assume we won't." Such lack of clarity could lead to miscalculations. "Would we get involved in fighting...
...American medic was court-martialed by the U.S. Army and convicted of disobeying a lawful order: refusing to accept foreign command on a U.N. operation. Specialist Michael New was given a bad-conduct discharge for refusing to join his unit in a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Macedonia. New, who claims the order was unconstitutional, plans to appeal...
...actually be abandoning reforms." The appointment of Primakov has special resonance. "Primakov didn't have a very savory reputation around Washington, even before he was head of the KGB," explains Nelan. "Most people here think he had links to the KGB his whole life. And as a Middle East specialist, he is also the one who formed alliances with Syria and Iraq and other radical muslim states and was trying until the last moment to work out a deal for his buddy Saddam Hussein. These meetings will be very important...