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...major sticking point was a demand by Washington, voiced only two weeks ago, that any cutoff of U.S. military aid to the mujahedin must be matched by a "symmetrical cessation" of arms deliveries to the Afghan government by Moscow. Kozyrev contended that the Soviets have been providing military supplies to Afghanistan for decades and that any attempt to end such assistance amounts to interference in Soviet affairs. Said the Soviet negotiator: "It would be like Moscow asking the U.S. to end its military aid for Pakistan...
...segregation. As a result of a 1969 lawsuit by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the states were forced to submit plans to increase black enrollment and recruit more minority faculty at white institutions, and to upgrade facilities at traditionally black colleges. Otherwise, the states would face a cutoff of federal funds. Last week's ruling means that the four passing states -- Arkansas, North Carolina, South Carolina and West Virginia -- are now free of such orders...
...Afghanistan, Reagan said he would not accept any plan to withdraw Soviet forces that was contingent upon a cutoff of U.S. aid to the Afghan resistance...
...prove too constrictive in the weeks ahead. All five Central American Presidents who signed the peace plan in Guatemala City three months ago are now downplaying the Nov. 5 cease-fire deadline, and have begun referring to the date as the beginning of a peace process rather than a cutoff for achieving the accord's goals. "We never expected that peace and democracy would descend from heaven on Nov. 5," insists a Costa Rican official. In Washington, where congressional opposition promises to doom the White House request for $270 million in fresh contra aid, the Reagan Administration is now talking...
...slim chances of recovery. "A 35-year-old has not had a chance to live out a full life-span," he says. "Some research may come along in time to save them -- we don't know that they are all going to die." Callahan carefully avoids setting a flat cutoff age, preferring to let the condition of the patient, the judgment of the doctor and the wishes of the individual interact...