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With the "Baby M." case still unresolved, another surrogate dispute ended in San Diego last week with an unorthodox divided custody. High School Science Teacher Mario Haro and his wife Nattie say her second cousin, Alejandra Munoz, agreed in 1985 to bear a child for them for a $1,500 fee but then demanded more money. Munoz, 20, claims the Haros had falsely assured her that after three weeks the embryo would be implanted in Nattie Haro. The child, Lydia Michelle, was born in June. The settlement approved by a judge will permit Munoz to see the child several days...
...proposal has drawn much criticism from many prominent politicians and anti-nuclear groups. Last Tuesday, Dukakis and N.Y. Gov. Mario Cuomo testified in Washington D.C. against the NRC proposal. Also at the NRC hearing and voicing opposition to the proposal were Senators Edward M. Kennedy '54, (D-Mass.), John F. Kerry, (D-Mass.), and Daniel P. Moynihan...
...last Thursday evening Mario Cuomo resolved his inner debate and quietly announced a stunning decision. As he was settling in at the cramped studio of a New York City radio station for a state-wide call-in show, the moderator told Cuomo he wanted to ask him whether he was going to run. "Go ahead," said Cuomo. "I may surprise you. Ask at the end of the program." With four minutes left, the moderator did so. Cuomo put on a pair of glasses, took a typewritten statement out of his pocket and began to read. "In my opinion," he said...
...relaxed Cuomo the next day. He emphasized the difficulties of campaigning for the presidency while holding another office. "You can't win without going to Iowa and New Hampshire. One of the candidates has been in Iowa for 50 days. I can't say, 'Hi, I'm Mario Cuomo. I'm only here for a day because I have these guys in New York beating...
...Babbitt and Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt feel that the absence of a top-tier battle between Cuomo and Hart will open the way for dark-horse candidates to pick up support and financial backing. Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis will no longer be thought of as the poor man's Mario Cuomo. If he enters the race, he will be the only candidate of the urban Northeast, and can carry the flag of pragmatic liberalism. Dukakis says he will make an announcement sometime in March...