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While an end to the ordeal does not seem immediate, the tensions between the various New York alumni and Harvard, two groups which are not natural enemies, have increased in anticipation. Any resolution to the problem will almost certainly leave some questions unanswered, and some parties dissatisfied...
...parliament, the Prime Minister delivered a spirited defense of his actions during the hijacking ordeal. Then Craxi made the five-minute trip to President Francesco Cossiga's Quirinale Palace to resign. Craxi's government had served 26 months, which was one month shy of the tenure record for the 44 governments Italy has had in the past 39 years. Instead, the outgoing coalition earned a new distinction: it was the first one to fall owing to a foreign policy crisis rather than a domestic one. At week's end Cossiga was carrying on discussions with all of the country...
...view, it was crucial to keep the Achille Lauro from docking anywhere. Seared into the memory of Administration officials was last June's TWA hijacking ordeal. When the captured jetliner was allowed to land at Beirut airport, its Shi'ite hijackers were able to disperse their 37 hostages into the surrounding urban slums, dragging out the kidnaping drama for 17 days. This time Administration crisis managers were also thinking that a rescue in international waters would be far easier than one in Syria or Lebanon...
...matured. Another procedure is the sonar-scanning technique called ultrasound, which produces black-and-white images of a woman's ovaries upon which the number of ripening eggs can be counted. Multiple pregnancies can usually be avoided by using one or both methods. In spite of their ordeal, the Frustacis have faith in drugs like Pergonal. Said Patti: "I want to emphasize that we still believe in treatment for fertility...
...experts suggested that the greatest danger to the babies during their ordeal had been cold. Mexican doctors speculated that dying adults in the wreckage near them had shielded the infants from the chill and passed on the margin of warmth necessary for survival. In any case, said Dina Villanueva Garcia, chief of the neonatology department of Juarez Hospital, "it was extraordinary that they survived." In all, about 15 infants and 166 adults had been rescued at Juarez Hospital by week's end, and two babies had been rescued at another hospital after nearly nine days of entombment...