Word: walkerism
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...final witness is Tracy, a chubby girl who smacks on chewing gum until Master Walker makes her remove it. In short order, the girl denies her father ever touched Emily and says Emily never told her of any abuse. She also claims she is not afraid of her father...
...there a reason why you wouldn't tell the truth if your father did touch you?" asks Purnell, trying to unmask the apparent cover-up. Tracy says no. Suddenly, Master Walker's loud voice booms across the courtroom. "She's giving more signals than a third-base coach for the Boston Red Sox," Walker says, gesturing toward the girl's mother. He has been watching her coach Tracy from the bench nearby...
Afternoon has slipped into evening. Emily's mother yawns. When closing arguments end, Walker, a kindly 20-year veteran of the bench who writes haiku and dabbles in abstract painting, rules that sexual abuse did, in fact, occur. After listening to two hours of testimony, Walker is convinced that Emily has been sexually abused by her father and wants to protect her from having it happen again. He orders Emily to remain in foster care and asks social services to evaluate the suitability of placing her in a relative's home...
...course. Having dumped $4 billion into the country since 1980, the U.S. has become El Salvador's cash cow. A major cutback of funds from Washington was once as unthinkable as a slash in Soviet aid to Cuba; now it may also be just as inevitable. Ambassador William Walker tries to convince Salvadorans that American support for their country is unwavering. Yet he acknowledges, "I don't know any more than they do what's going to happen up on Capitol Hill." Given the economic climate in the U.S., foreign aid to a country no longer facing a communist insurgency...
...Melanie Stephens, Simonetta Toraldo Photographers: Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Greg Davis, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Kenneth Jarecke, Cynthia Johnson, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Steve Liss, Christopher Morris, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Robert Nickelsberg, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Anthony Suau, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...