People, Feb. 18, 1974

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—When Actor Donald Sutherland, 37, was signed for Paramount's movie The Day of the Locust last August, he asked for and got an unusual clause in his contract: paternity leave. It seems that Actress Francine Racette, 27, with whom he had been living for two years, was expecting. To prepare for the baby's birth, the couple studied the Bradley method, a natural-birth technique in which the father helps deliver the child. Last week, when Francine's labor began, he took her to West Park Hospital in Los Angeles County and provided last-minute coaching before assisting into the world their 8-lb. 13-oz. son.

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DMITRY MEDVEDEV, Russian President, blaming nightclub managers in Perm, Russia for a fire that killed 109 people Saturday; the managers had refused to comply with fire safety standards despite repeated demands
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