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...ASEAN)* hoped that the conference would provide what Washington termed a "framework for settlement" and offer some inducements for Hanoi to retreat from its costly adventure. ASEAN introduced a plan designed to dispel Hanoi's fear that its enemy, China, might attempt to seize Cambodia if Viet Nam withdrew from the country. The proposal called for disarming all forces contending for power in Cambodia, including 30,000 to 40,000 Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge guerrillas. A neutral, interim government under U.N. supervision would then be established to organize free elections...
Administration backers made some concessions to win their victory. At the last minute, they withdrew a proposal to set a strict limit on Washington contributions to the federal-state Medicaid program that pays many hospital and doctor bills for low-income patients. That was one of the rare Administration proposals that provoked Republican rebellion: some G.O.P. Congressmen from the Northeast and Midwest notified the White House that they could not go along because they feared their financially hard-pressed states would have to pick up an unbearable share of the costs. Even so, the House voted to cut federal contributions...
...difficulty that the new Israeli government may find clearing up by the time it takes office is the Syrian missile crisis. Last week Christian Phalangists withdrew from the Lebanese city of Zahle, and Syrian peace-keeping forces in turn lifted their siege of the city. The agreement could be a first step toward a settlement that would ease the crisis in Lebanon and make it unnecessary for Israel to pursue its threat to attack Syrian missiles there...
...taken during the earlier ultrasound scanning helped locate the abnormal twin, though not with certainty; Kerenyi put his chances at "much better than 50-50." Doctors then used sound waves to pinpoint the tiny beating heart. On their second attempt, they pierced the heart with a thin needle and withdrew about half the fetus' blood, causing the heart gradually to stop beating. Analysis of the blood later confirmed that the correct twin had been aborted...
...again. Noyes and his wife Bjorna, 28, unable to produce children, had had his sperm injected into Nisa Bhimani, 29, a California widow and mother of three. But during her pregnancy, Bhimani decided she wanted to keep the child. Noyes sued for custody. Then, just before the trial, he withdrew his suit, partly to avoid publicly divulging his wife's transsexuality-which came out, in court documents. That tidbit has since been publicized anyway, so Noyes, a truck driver who has invested more than $5,000 in his quest, may renew the custody fight...