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Last week President Reagan sent Deputy Secretary of State John C. Whitehead to Warsaw. He started negotiating with General Jaruzelski to lift the economic sanctions levied in 1981. The aim was to end Poland's nearly six years of political isolation...
DURING THE month of Jaruzelski's mission to Italy and Whitehead's diplomatic initiative, Poland played host to Japanese prime minister Nakasone. The country will receive Britain's Margaret Thatcher and the French and German foreign ministers during the coming months...
...Whitehead, who did not accept her fee or sign over custody, took the child home with her. Three days later the Sterns collected the baby from the Whitehead home, but next morning Whitehead came by to beg for the infant's temporary return. After a two-hour encounter that both sides say was punctuated by emotional outbursts, the Sterns reluctantly agreed. "We thought she was suicidal," William Stern said. Two weeks later, when the Sterns came to her home, Whitehead told them she would not give up the child...
...following month, after obtaining a court order that required the infant to be handed over to them, the Sterns returned, accompanied by five policemen. In the confusion, Richard Whitehead slipped away with the child through a bedroom window. The Whiteheads then fled with the baby to Florida, where they were tracked down by a private detective hired by the Sterns. Authorities took the infant and returned her to New Jersey. Last September, Judge Sorkow gave temporary custody to the Sterns, but he allowed Mary Beth Whitehead to spend two hours twice a week with Baby M. on the neutral turf...
...Because of the risks to the mother, the committee pronounced itself "not favorably disposed to the use of surrogate mothers for nonmedical reasons." But the members declined to issue an across-the-board condemnation. And they deplored the absence of reliable data from which to draw conclusions. Mary Beth Whitehead is a high school dropout who married at 16. Is that typical of surrogate mothers? Are they more likely % to be exploited or fulfilled, altruistic or driven by dark motives...