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...three opposing factions in Bosnia met to discuss a resolution to the 19- month-old war. A possible breakthrough came when Bosnia's Muslim-led government briefly considered a plan to partition Sarajevo (where the Serbs' continuing siege killed seven more people last week) in exchange for Serb land concessions in eastern Bosnia. The Serbs, however, were unwilling to give up territory...
...Japan got a new political course. For the Prime Minister it was no less an accomplishment than Bill Clinton's NAFTA victory -- and owed at least as much to his own will and assertiveness. After 121 hours of interparty talks, the leader of the three- month-old ruling coalition abandoned traditional consensus politics to force a vote over the opposition's objections on four pieces of legislation that would radically change Japan's electoral system. Liberal Democrats, still fumbling in their role as the largest opposition party, fumed that the government was pushing them toward a decision "at knifepoint." Hosokawa...
Even when family relationships are solid, a parent's unconventional sexuality can complicate life for children, particularly during adolescence. Atlanta bookstore owner Linda Bryant adopted a 10-month-old biracial boy before she came out. He is now 18 and heterosexual. Growing up, he sympathetically compared her situation to the racial prejudice he encountered. When he was 12, she recalls, he said gently, "Mom, you know, it's not an accepted thing." Will Dixon-Gray, who lives in Freeport, New York, with his adopted son Ed, 16, says the boy was uncomfortable for a long time with his father...
...back a child. In Iowa, where the Schmidts live, court rulings allow the father to "come back at any point in the child's life," says Seader. In New York State, however, the court of appeals ruled unanimously in 1992 against a man who tried to claim an 18-month-old boy he had not known he fathered -- and who had been given up for adoption...
Students lit candles to represent lives that could be lost during a two month-old hunger strike staged by Haitian refugees if President Clinton fails to alter U.S. immigration policy...