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Michelle Marcello, an MGH spokesperson, yesterday refused to confirm the reports that a group had already formed, but did not deny that talks were in progress...
...Clinton Administration widened the freeze on Haitian financial assets in the U.S. to include not just the military, but all citizens. Meanwhile, reports circulated that the U.S. was offering big cash for Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and his cronies to simply leave the country. The State Department would neither confirm nor deny the rumors, but they clearly were sowing seeds of doubt among the military rank and file about whether their officers would still be around if and when U.S. troops invade...
Pumping iron is a healthy exercise -- even for the elderly, according to a new study of 80 and 90-year-olds. Researchers found a significant improvement in walking speeds and ability to climb stairs after several weeks of weight-lifting. The new data confirm results from a smaller sampling of older Americans studied four years ago, which indicated that the onset of physical disabilities during the later years of life was due in part to a loss of leg muscle...
...White House says it will ask the North Koreans to return to the negotiating table if Pyongyang will only confirm the offer it reportedly made to Jimmy Carter -- to stop its nuclear progam. Today's move by the Administration is the latest attempt to clarify just where the U.S. stands diplomatically in the wake of the former President's visit to North Korea. The White House has halted its drive in the U.N. for trade sanctions against the isolated communist country while it waits for Pyongyang's response...
...Laotian fieldworkers under contract to New York's Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) say they have taken blood samples from a live specimen of one of the creatures -- the giant muntjac -- in a menagerie owned by a Laotian military group. If they are correct, studies of the captive animal could confirm the claim made earlier this year by Vietnamese scientists and MacKinnon concerning the giant muntjac. MacKinnon analyzed a skull brought to him by Do Tuoc and Shanthini Dawson, an Indian biologist. It resembled that $ of a muntjac, also known as a barking deer, but the head and antlers were much...