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Three long nights of negotiations last week resulted in a proposal which the two groups plan to offer in court as an alternative to continuing the nine-month-old litigation, Vellucci said. A Federal District Court judge will decide whether to allow the private settlement...
...good." Joyce Leviton interviewed pro-choice activists in Atlanta and experienced one of the many ironies in the abortion fight: during a call to the vice president of the Georgia Abortion Rights Action League, she found herself listening to the cooing of the pro-abortion leader's nine-month-old daughter. Making the correspondents' task even more difficult was the fact that many women still have mixed feelings about abortion. Says Chicago Correspondent Madeleine Nash, recalling a visit to a Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Paul: "The cheerful waiting room could have been in any doctor...
...formidable difference: a Libyan military occupation already in effect. Since early December Gaddafi has had some 5,000 members of his "Islamic Legions" inside Chad. Backed by artillery, tanks and air cover, the Libyan troops had broken the stalemate in the country's nine-month-old civil war by helping President Goukouni Oueddei to defeat his rival. Defense Minister Hissene Habre. The proposed Libya-Chad merger thus appeared less a union between consenting sovereign nations than an outright Libyan annexation of the impoverished, landlocked country of 4.5 million. Chad is an ideal launching position for his expansionist dream...
...been less enthusiastic. Said one Cairo official who did not attend the ceremony: "We're not ready to celebrate anything right now, with the situation as it is in Gaza and the West Bank." Translation: Egypt is unhappy with the lack of progress to date in the nine-month-old Palestinian autonomy talks and does not wish to make other Arab nations any angrier over the Egyptian-Israeli peace than they are already...
...Exxon's earnings on revenues of $84.3 billion totaled $4.3 billion, making it the most profitable corporation in American industry. Yet even as the announcements rolled in, Senate and House conferees were reaching final agreement on a compromise over a key aspect of Jimmy Carter's nine-month-old call for a windfall-profits tax on the oil industry...