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...case, we waited another hour without any progress before deciding to undergo the 12-min. procedure. My wife felt immediate relief. Her uterus kept contracting, and with the help of a little Pitocin, a medication to speed up labor, we were in business. She was able to get some rest without pain while her body continued to push the baby down and open up her cervix. Less than three hours later, her doctor gave us the news we had been waiting to hear: we were ready to have a baby. My wife pushed hard, feeling pressure but no pain...
...time the two men finally emerged from their 64-min. tête-à-tête, they had already begun to hash over regional issues, which, according to the summit agenda, were not supposed to be discussed until the next day. While Reagan found the large number of Soviet advisers in Nicaragua "intolerable," Gorbachev insisted that the U.S.S.R. was bound by its constitution to aid "wars of national liberation." Disavowing imperialist ambitions, he went on, "We have no commercial interests or desire for bases. We are just helping people achieve freedom." The Soviets, he added, in a dig at Reagan for supporting anti...
...goes again. The patrician Daisy McConnahay (Nastassja Kinski) rebels against her snooty mother and sisters to become a kind of Cenderella Liberty, cheerleading Tom to cream those Brits. So does Annie Lennox, of the pop duo Eurythmics, whose charisma is edited out of this chaotic 2-hr. 4-min. mess...
Part of the adventure for tourists who visit the ancient Mayan city of Tikal is in getting there. The site's famous ruins are buried deep in the Guatemalan jungle, and the 40-min. flight from Guatemala City affords sightseers spectacular views of the lush terrain. But last Saturday morning that journey ended in tragedy as a twin-engine Caravelle operated by the private carrier Aerovias crashed on its way to the airport at Santa Elena, 37 miles south of Tikal. Early reports put the number killed at 90, including six Americans. Some of the passengers had apparently traveled...
...cities, the tumblers are still adjusting from the intimate Chinese circus style to what Xu politely calls "a very grand presentation that is to the American audience's taste." Meanwhile, their countrymen were adjusting last week to the American circus known as Super Bowl XX. The first 90-min. TV broadcast of "gan lan qiu" (olive ball) was watched by some 300 million Chinese...