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...Illinois a father sues to force his three-year-old twins to donate bone marrow to save the life of his other son. If the courts agree, where will they draw the line...
P.L.O. The failure of the U.S. and Egypt to prod Israel toward a resolution of the almost three-year-old uprising in the occupied territories has pushed the Palestine Liberation Organization tighter into Iraq's embrace. Frustrated Palestinians regard Saddam as the one man willing to do more than mouth empty words for their cause; many have come to regard him as a potential savior. Chairman Yasser Arafat may feel he has little choice but to back Saddam. Still, Arafat will have a tough time explaining his rejection of last week's pan-Arab resolution to his benefactors...
Solving algebra problems may not be every teenager's idea of how to spend a month of summer vacation, but for the 90 black youngsters enrolled in Love of Learning, a three-year-old minority-enrichment program at North Carolina's Davidson College, schoolwork is hot stuff. "They get motivated when they come here," says English teacher Regina Brandon. "This is an opportunity for them to get rid of some of the stumbling blocks that hold them back...
...Endara government believes that Noriega may have gone beyond talk. Last month the three-year-old grandson of onetime Noriega crony Marcos Justines was kidnaped and killed. In charge of military finances for the Noriega regime, Justines is jailed in Panama City, charged with stealing $47 million from the National Bank and $33 million from safe-deposit boxes on Dec. 20, the day the U.S. invaded Panama. There have been unconfirmed reports that he has agreed to testify against his former boss. Late last month Panamanian authorities arrested two Noriega loyalists suspected of having planned the kidnaping. Says a Justice...
...immediate cause of Bell's decision was Harvard's refusal to consider tenure for visiting professor Regina Austin, a black woman on the law faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. In rejecting Austin's candidacy, Harvard cited a three-year-old rule prohibiting tenure offers to visiting professors. But that technicality did not blunt Bell's anger at the school's hiring policies, which he once characterized as an attempt to recruit people "who look black and think white." Bell, who is black, now concedes that the description was "a bit unfair." But he still sees a "gap between...