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Aquino responded heatedly. Marcos, she said, was "maliciously slandering" the memory of her husband, slain Opposition Leader Benigno Aquino. She also charged the President with "political harassment," claiming that for years Marcos has tried to confiscate a sugar plantation owned by her family. Aquino revealed that on Dec. 3, the day she announced her candidacy, a regional court ordered the government to seize the property. As for the "pinko" charge, Aquino had a cool response. If elected, she said, she would allow Communists to join a coalition government if they renounced violence. NEW ZEALAND He Did It for Love...
...during his marriage is "marital property" and that his ex-wife is entitled to a portion of it--a share that one lower court calculated to be worth $188,800. The court noted that Loretta O'Brien had sacrificed her educational and career opportunities to further those of her husband, now a resident at a New York City hospital. Contributions like hers, the state high court said, are precisely the kind of "joint effort" that framers of the state's 1980 divorce law had in mind in its provisions regarding the division of property...
...which they instruct judges to divide assets acquired during marriage. Critics complain that while these laws require a fair division of "property," judges often do not include in that term such intangible assets as future earning capacity, professional education and medical insurance. These assets, they argue, usually benefit the husband but are acquired in part through the wife's sacrifice of her own career opportunities. "Let the wife share in the standard of living that she helped to build," says Stanford University Sociology Professor Lenore Weitzman...
BORN. To Christie Brinkley, 31, blond supermodel; and her husband Billy Joel, 36, master songwriter whose latest video is The Night Is Still Young: their first child, a daughter; in New York City. Name: Alexa Ray. Weight...
BORN. To Danuta Walesa, 36, and her husband Lech Walesa, 42, leader of Poland's outlawed independent union, Solidarity, and winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize for Peace, now working most of the time at his old job as an electrician at the Lenin Shipyard: their eighth child, fourth daughter; in Gdansk. Name: Brygida Katarzyna. Weight...