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Secretary of State Warren Christopher was unable to push the sides in the Bosnian conflict to an agreement at a crucial stage in the two-week-old negotiations. Christopher had traveled to Dayton Tuesday morning hoping to force resolution on crucial questions of territorial control in the former Yugolavia, particularly concerning Sarajevo. "Our negotiating team is certainly willing to work with these parties for the next few days or perhaps into next week," said State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns. But he ruled out a "partial" or "barebones" accord as unacceptable and said that "they can't go home until they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BALKAN PEACE TALKS STALL | 11/14/1995 | See Source »

Many physicians had written off this kind of organ swapping between species back in 1984, when Dr. Leonard Bailey of Loma Linda University Hospital in California transplanted a baboon's heart into a two-week-old infant known as Baby Fae. Three weeks after the operation, the child died of kidney failure, and Bailey was heavily criticized for experimenting on a human with little chance of success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ON A PIG AND A PRAYER | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

...first established by President Ronald Reagan. The panel's proposal came over intense opposition from groups that believe human life, for legal purposes, should begin at the moment of conception. The prominent doctors and researchers on the panel moved forward carefully, saying the work should be limited to two-week-old embryos and calling for public education so Americans can come to accept the idea of lab experiments on fertilized eggs. Two-week-old embryos "do not have the same moral status as infants and children," they said, but they do merit "significant respect as a developing form of human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CLINTON NIXES U.S. FUNDS FOR EMBRYO RESEARCH | 12/2/1994 | See Source »

...Iraqi tanks and troops smashed into Saudi Arabia's northeast corner early yesterday and were beaten back in "hellacious" fighting by allied forces. Twelve U.S. Marines were reported killed in the heaviest combat of the two-week-old war. Allied losses were described as light, Iraqi casualties as heavy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: War Update | 1/31/1991 | See Source »

When Alberto Fujimori was running for President, he promised he would not try to revive Peru's disastrous economy with shock tactics. Last week Fujimori's two-week-old government unveiled an austerity plan that prompted protests and food riots. Overnight the price of gasoline jumped from 10 cents per gal. to more than $2, and food prices rose 300%. In Lima at least three people were killed by police and army troops, who were enforcing a state of emergency invoked two days before the measures were made public. The plan calls for taxes to be raised, import duties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru: A Shock to The System | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

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