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...Bianco's tragic fate has become all too common in the U.S. About 2 million women are battered by their husbands or lovers each year; 1,500 of those victims died in 1987, the last year for which complete statistics are available. The most common advice offered battered women is for them to leave the men who abuse them. But experts say some men, panicked by loss of control over their previously cowered partners, become even more violent after separation. "It's extremely rare that you read about a man who has beaten a woman to death while...
...other nations and kick off a parley to redraft Europe's military map. -- Greece's embattled Papandreou fights back against an accuser. -- A journey into the heart of El Salvador's guerrilla war. -- American journalist Terry Anderson begins his fifth year of captivity in Beirut: a look at his tragic ordeal...
...tales of hard-pressed people, few are more tragic than the history of affliction borne by the Indians of the U.S. Years of reservation life have left many of them mired in poverty and despair. In Washington the Senate's Select Committee on Indian Affairs is holding hearings on the general state of Indian problems, and they seem to be no better than ever: a high rate of alcoholism and mortality, desperate health conditions, low employment and income, rampant child abuse. Bad enough that years of failed policies administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs have contributed to the difficulties...
...Mandela had made mistakes. Murphy Morobe, a U.D.F. spokesman, said the organizations were particularly outraged "by the reign of terror" conducted by the so-called Mandela United Football Club, a gang of street toughs who live at Mandela's house and act as her bodyguards. The catalyst for her tragic fall: Mandela and her "team" are at the center of a police investigation involving three murders...
...living in Minnesota in 1968. But poring over 4,000 photos to make her final selections of 150 images, she felt "a shock of recognition and then the realization -- my God, all this happened in 1968?" Like her, you will rediscover the astonishing roller coaster of events, from the tragic (Robert Kennedy's vacant stare from the floor of the Los Angeles hotel pantry) to the trivial (a miniskirt dotted with peace symbols...