Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before the nine-year-old daughter of Ernest and Regina Twigg of Sebring, Fla., died last year, following surgery for a heart defect, doctors made an unsettling discovery: Arlena Twigg was not their biological child. Last week genetic tests established that the Twiggs' real daughter is Kimberly Mays, who was born at Hardee Memorial hospital in Wauchula, Fla., at about the same time as Arlena...
Robert Mays of Sarasota, Fla., who reared Kimberly believing she was his daughter, had the painful task of telling her the truth. "She still calls me Daddy," says Mays...
...military and the right wing have responded with violent attacks on human rights organizations and trade union, indiscriminate bombings on poor villages, and harassment of religious workers. The most notorious of recent events was the murder and mutilation of six priests, their cook and her fifteen-year-old daughter at the hands of the military...
Inside the house were more bodies: Fathers Amado Lopez and Juan Ramon Moreno, both Spaniards; Father Joaquin Lopez y Lopez, a Salvadoran; and the cook's 15-year-old daughter. By midday the bodies were still lying beneath the sun, and the potent stench of lifeless flesh, which I associate so closely with El Salvador, was already fouling their once peaceful place of refuge...
...families of victims killed in the downing of an Iranian passenger jet by the U.S.S. Vincennes in July 1988. Some security analysts conclude that Iran ordered the bombing of Flight 103 to avenge the Iranian Airbus disaster. The families do not disagree. Jeannine Boulanger, whose 21-year-old daughter Nicole was killed over Lockerbie, remembers vividly the day the Iranian plane went down. "Little did I realize that my daughter would pay the price for that," she says. "Iran paid for this bombing, yet Americans must sue to get compensation...