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TIMES SOUTH PACIFIC 90,000 Australia 65,000 New Zealand...
...medical specialty is developing. Not yet officially recognized, it is embryatrics: the treatment of the baby still in the womb. Conceived little more than a year ago in Auckland, New Zealand, it is now being practiced on four continents in the hope of saving fetuses endangered by Rh incompatibility. And if its pioneers' hopes are fulfilled, embryatrics will eventually be extended to the treatment and prevention of other handicapping or fatal conditions...
...Zealand-born Dr. A. William Liley applied simple, practical reasoning to the problem. Anything he did, he figured, must be for the better-"You couldn't possibly do any harm to the baby, because it couldn't be worse off than it already was." And if it was all right to push a hypodermic needle into the bag of waters, why not keep going and push it into the fetus' abdomen? At National Women's Hospital in Auckland, he did just that. Through the bore of the heavy-gauge needle, he then inserted a thin plastic...
...hand were delegates from pro-Chinese splinter parties in Western Europe and Peking-controlled Communist parties in North Viet Nam, North Korea, Indonesia, Japan and, of all places, New Zealand. Rumania and Cuba also sent delegates, indicating an interesting degree of independence from Moscow. None of the other, normally pro-Moscow parties attended. Peking meanwhile rejected another Moscow invitation for a meeting of the worldwide Communist movement...
...Australia's Ron Clarke, 27: a wind-whipped, three-mile race at Melbourne's Olympic Park, in the world-record time of 13 min. 7.6 sec.-clipping 2.4 sec. off the old mark held by New Zealand's Murray Halberg, who trailed Clarke through the tape by 150 yds. Peter Snell failed in his attempt to break his own world record for the mile (3 min. 54.1 sec.), still clocked 3 min. 57.6 sec.-the eleventh time the muscular New Zealander has cracked...