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In order to avoid a tough confirmation battle, President Clinton is unlikely to appoint a new candidate for Surgeon General this year. Discounting the importance of the unfilled post, Presidential spokesman Mike McCurry says Clinton is happy with the work of Deputy Surgeon General Audrey Manley.

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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