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...custody battles involve contending parents. The fight over a nine- month-old girl named Allyssa is a classic clash of cultures. The mother, Patricia Keetso, 21, is an unwed Navajo Indian who would like her daughter to be adopted by Rick and Cheryl Pitts of San Jose, who have been caring for the baby since birth. But tribal officials, fearing that the flow of Indian foster children to non-Indian homes threatens their survival as a people, are seeking to rear the baby on their Arizona reservation. The emotional case has become a symbol of tribal resistance to the baby...
Even so, the justices gave custody of 22-month-old Melissa Elizabeth to her father. The Sterns, the court decided, could provide a more stable home: "Their household and their personalities promise a much more likely foundation for Melissa to grow and thrive." Last November Whitehead divorced her first husband to marry Dean Gould, and the couple is now expecting a child of their own. But the justices also restored the parental rights of Whitehead- Gould, which the trial judge had terminated, and invalidated last year's adoption of Melissa by Elizabeth Stern. By instructing a lower court to decide...
Bush's ripostes to Rather were the capstone to a month-old "get tough" campaign orchestrated by Media Adviser Ailes and other staffers. "If somebody hits him," says Lee Atwater, "Bush is going to try to hit back harder." In recent weeks, Bush has jabbed at Alexander Haig, tweaked Bob Dole, and lit into James P. Gannon, editor of the Des Moines Register, for what he claims was unfair reporting about his role in the Iran-contra affair. Two weeks ago, at an "Ask George Bush" gathering in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Bush waded into the audience, seized a piece...
...there have been several indications that tension was easing in the gulf despite the apparent failure of a 6-month-old United Nations ceasefire effort...
...latest violence followed publication of a new electoral law by the government of Lieut. General Henri Namphy. In violation of the country's nine- month-old constitution, the law requires that ballots be examined by government-appointed agents, and bars civilian observers from the polls. Presidential elections are scheduled for Jan. 17, but the four leading candidates are convinced that Namphy will install his own man in office, and have refused...