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...irrelevant," Ross replies to the question people are asking: Why publish a memoir about your 40-year relationship with a married man while his wife, whom you say you are fond of, is still alive? "There were no secrets, really, that were divulged," Ross says firmly. "We never went underground, and he [Shawn] talked with her [Cecille] about what was happening with him and with me immediately...
...getting not just one but two protection orders against her husband, that his co-workers described him as "hot tempered and strong willed" and that she gave up a very nice life-style and risked jail to get away from him. Also the claim that women in the underground take children "from fathers who don't get two minutes in their own defense" runs counter to anything our office has seen. Rather, domestic-violence perpetrators use the legal system to harass their partners. Our organization cannot condone parental kidnapping, but we can understand the forces that may drive battered women...
...their children to an outside party until all their personal and financial battles are over. This system could put abusers in the spotlight and keep them away from children. Meanwhile, the only course of action for people like Shah's ex-wife and her children will be to go underground. REBECCA ASHLING Portland...
...child 15 years ago. Hiding is a nightmare. Every moment is filled with fear; no one can be trusted; there is no peace. In the end, I was found, and my child was taken from me. I would have given anything for the assistance of Faye Yager and the underground. It is unfathomable that any woman would kidnap her children without real cause. If Ellen Dever is caught, she will pay dearly for her actions. But sometimes a mother's love knows no reason; the instinct to protect her child is greater than anything else. NAME WITHHELD BY REQUEST Atlanta...
...optimists hope India will follow the example of China and France, two countries that conducted underground tests, then signed the test-ban treaty. Vajpayee has stopped short of promising that India's tests are over, but he has hinted that he may now adhere to "some" of the treaty's provisions. Burned by India's artful dissimulations, says James Steinberg, Berger's deputy, "I don't think we'd necessarily take whatever they say as gospel...