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SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 21,1992 THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS 5-A NATION Smith residency on again in N.M. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) Dr. William Kennedy Smith will begin his medical residency at the University of New Mexico this summer, the school said Thursday. Smith had postponed starting the program last year while he successfully defended himself against a rape charge.

Smith will join 19 other incoming first-year internal medicine residents in June, the university said in a statement. He had been scheduled to Smith begin last June. Smith, 31, nephew of Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass, was acquitted in December in Palm Beach, of charges he raped a woman at the Kennedy estate last Easter weekend. Smith graduated from Georgetown University Medical School last year.

USAF intercepts Russian bombers ANCHORAGE (AP) Air Force F-15s intercepted two Russian Bear G-series bombers off western Alaska early Friday, an Air Force spokeswoman said. "It's anyone's guess why they were in the area," said Capt. Monica Aloisio, a spokeswoman for the llth Air Force at Elmendorf Air Force Base. "We're calling them Russian although it's believed they were launched from a base in the Ukraine." The intercept was made at 2:21 a.m., 538 miles west of Cold Bay, the Air Force said. The F-15s steered the bombers away from the United States.

The bombers never penetrated U.S. air space, the Air Force said. Hosea Williams begins treatment DECATUR, Ga. (AP) Veteran civil rights activist Hosea Williams left jail with a judge's permission Friday to enter an alcohol treatment center as part of his sentence for a hit-and-run accident. Williams, 66, completed his 30-day jail term last week, but stayed in jail because Superior Court Judge Robert Mallis had said he could not leave until he was ready to begin the treatment.

Williams said he stayed an extra' week while trying to raise money to attend the Betty Ford Center in California, but settled for the Psychiatric Institute of Atlanta because the Betty Ford Center wouldn't have a vacancy soon. Biospherians losing weight ORACLE, Ariz. (AP) The eight people sealed inside Biosphere 2 for the last six months have lost weight, and are digging deeper into their reserve supplies of food than they had planned. An advisory committee visited the site last month to review the progress of the two- year experiment, which has been beset by allegations of cheating and a lack of ic value. "It's very clear that they were hungry and that there had been a loss of weight that was measurable," committee member Steve O'Brien told The Arizona Daily Star of Tucson Friday.

O'Brien, a geneticist with the National Cancer Institute, told the newspaper one crew member lost about 40 pounds. 'Cheers' renewed BURBANK, Calif. (AP) The gang at "Cheers" will belly up to the bar again this fall. NBC announced Thursday it has renewed its top-rated show for an llth year. The Emmy-winning program's stars, including Ted Danson, George Wendt, Kirstie Alley and Woody Harrelson, had already agreed to return.

Both sides declined to say Thursday how much the network paid for next season's HHS lifts federal 'gag rule 9 on abortion advice Associated Press WASHINGTON The Bush administration on Friday said doctors in federally funded clinics could give their patients advice on abortion even in situations where the life of the mother is not at risk, The decision provides an exception in the so-called "gag rule" that forbids the clinics from directing women to get abortions. Doctors would be able to refer women to facilities that provide abortions. However, administration officials said the doctor's advice must be based on medicine and not on social concerns. Planned Parenthood of America said the apparent policy shift was a smokescreen that merely bolsters the gag rule. But "We feel that the doctors are ungagged," insisted an official of the Department of Health and Human Services.

"What a physician does is not something that we're going to get involved in," said the official who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity. In guidelines that are to take effect within three months, the department said "re-, ferral to specialized medical care for medical conditions which may complicate pregnancy still must be made, even if the ultimate result may be the termination of pregnancy." Doctors in the clinics can refer patients to get abortions based on medical judgment, and the government will not second- guess that judgment, the official said. "We don't intend to try to interfere with physicians' speech," the official said. However, the rules for other clinic staffers remained another matter. They can only talk about abortion if asked, and then they are to refer the patient elsewhere.

"We're not in the business of providing counseling on abortion," the official said. The Planned Parenthood of America Federation denounced the guidelines, saying that they actually solidified the gag policy instead of relaxing it. "With the gag rule in place, speech about abortion and abortion-related referrals will be censored," said David Andrews, executive vice president of the organization. When told that the administration was calling this a lifting of the gag rule, Andrews replied: "I don't care what they said. This is more administration doubletaUc.

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