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...Congo, as peace talks between the Liberian government and rebels resumed in Ghana and U.N. peacekeepers failed to halt fighting in the eastern Ituri region of Congo. The Liberian talks had started a week previously but stalled as rebel troops attacked Monrovia, and a U.N.-backed court in Sierra Leone indicted President Charles Taylor for war crimes. And in Congo, tribal fighting and massacres of civilians continued a week after a French-led, U.N.-backed force began peacekeeping duties, and as a U.N. Security Council delegation visited the regional capital, Bunia. The intervention force will reach its full operational strength...
...SIERRA MIST PepsiCo last year called a halt to its distribution deal with 7Up and launched this challenger to 7Up and Sprite. It has a traditional lemon-lime soda taste but is slightly sweeter than the competitors. --L.McL...
...premiums required for them to keep delivering babies, the hospital was forced to close its delivery room. Suddenly rural Cochise County, a 6,000-sq.-mi. expanse of mountains and desert along the Mexican border, had but one delivery room left for its 118,000 residents. It is in Sierra Vista, 50 miles northwest of Valdez's home. Which means that a week before her Aug. 4 due date, Valdez will pack her bags and camp out at the home of family friends near the hospital. "It sucks. It's not the same as being in your house, with your...
Valdez doesn't have it quite so bad--but don't try to tell her that. While she is busy looking for a new doctor in Sierra Vista for the big day in August, she is still commuting two hours to keep appointments with her current doctor in Tucson. The road to Sierra Vista winds through mountains and creosote flats. "It's going to be summer now, and it's getting hotter here," she says. "I'm afraid of the car breaking down again"--as it did recently while Valdez was driving alone on her way home from Tucson...
Some expectant couples rent motel rooms in Sierra Vista for when their babies are due. But some who can't afford a room or whose timing is off end up with the baby arriving in the middle of the night while they're racing along the highway, according to Copper Queen Hospital CEO James Dickson. The intersection of Highways 80 and 90 is listed as the place of birth on the certificate of a baby girl born in the front passenger seat of a car where those highways cross. Women lacking transportation, a common problem in this working-poor area...