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ALBANY, May 16--Governor Carey and Patricia Roberts Harris, Secretary of Health and Human Services, clashed today over the state's handling of hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid funds. The battle could leave the state pinched for cash for the next several months and throw its budget seriously out of balance.

WASHINGTON, May 16--The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted unanimously today against granting two export licenses for the shipment of nuclear fuel to India.

WASHINGTON, May 16--The Environmental Protection Agency has found evidence that some residents of the Love Canal area in Niagara Falls, N.Y., may have suffered chromosome damage from toxic chemicals buried there, Federal officials reported today.

TOKYO, May 16--The governing Liberal Democratic Party suffered a stunning defeat in the Japanese Parliament today on what had begun as a ritual motion of no confidence, and Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira called a general election for next month.

Tolls on the bridges and tunnels that connect four of New York City's five boroughs will be increased to as much as $1 beginning Monday, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced yesterday.

SHANNON, Ireland, May 16--Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie and Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko met for three hours today in Vienna in what was called an extensive and blunt discussion of the major differences in Soviet-American relations that have arisen since the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.

KEY WEST, Fla., May 16--As thousands of Cuban refugees streamed across the piers here today, Coast Guard reinforcements began arriving to discourage new departures for Cuba and prevent returning boat operators from landing along the coast to avoid seizure of their vessels.

WASHINGTON, May 16--The output of the nation's factories fell sharply in April, Government figures showed today. The 1.9 percent drop in one month was the largest in more than five years and provided more evidence of what economists say is a substantial recession.

PEKING, May 16--Peking has secretly built a jetliner that bears a very close resemblence to the Boeing 707, but it does not fly and has evidently turned into an embarrassment for both the Chinese and Boeing, which are negotiating for further aircraft sales.

PEKING--The Soviet trade official was unmistakably Russian, coming into the Theater Store, an antiques shop on Chongwenmen Street, on a Saturday afternoon to peruse its vast collection of vases, clocks, tables, dresses and jewelry.

SEOUL, South Korea, May 16--Student leaders abruptly called off increasingly violent street demonstrations against martial law today after Government appeals for restraint and hints that the timetable for democratization might be speeded up.

JERUSALEM, May 16--The Government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin appeared today to take a firm stand on resisting pressures from Egypt to relax Israeli policies on Palestinian self-determination.