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...five-nation Western "contact group" seeking a U.N.-sponsored Namibia settlement. The other four-Britain, France, West Germany and Canada-fear that U.S. willingness to tolerate South Africa's provocative policies will only lead to delay, thus strengthening Soviet influence in the region. Last January South Africa withdrew its approval of a U.N.-sponsored plan for a cease-fire and for supervised free elections in Namibia, largely for fear that SWAPO would emerge victorious. Last week Secretary of State Alexander Haig revealed that Pretoria is again ready to go along with the U.N. plan, provided certain unspecified "confidence-building...
...1970s virtually all social change was linked to Havana's influence." Venezuela and Cuba have seldom been easy with each other in recent decades; their relationship turned positively chilly last year after Cuban police shot at refugees seeking political asylum inside the Venezuelan embassy in Havana. Caracas withdrew its ambassador in protest...
...1930s. No one liked it. Dill-pickle ice cream, intended for pregnant women, was concocted by a shop in Michigan. It succeeded. More than one specialty shop whipped up jelly-bean ice cream in honor of Ronald Reagan's Inauguration, but Washington Lawyer Weiss, perhaps foreseeing litigation, quickly withdrew his from his menu at Bob's Famous. Said he: "It looked like a potential tooth chipper...
Pediatric Surgeon Michael Harrison used a needle to guide a small blue tube, or catheter, into the fetus' bladder to drain urine into the amniotic fluid. Then he withdrew the needle, using a yellow push rod to hold the catheter in place. On the day after the baby, named Michael, was born in May, Harrison removed the catheter and created an opening for urine to drain from the small of his back. Said Harrison: "Michael will probably have to have another operation to reconstruct his urinary tract, but he should live a normal life...
...March, the student Third World Center Organization, which presented the first proposal for an institution to serve primarily minorities in the spring of 1980, withdrew its support of the Gomes Committee's proposal, saying it would stress race relations, not minority needs...