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...Paul David Kutz of Rockwell City, Iowa. Severino's grandparents, with whom he had lived since birth, say they never gave permission for the change of family, and they are suing in Guatemala to have the adoption nullified and the boy returned. According to the Hernandezes' lawsuit, the youngster was secretly given up for adoption by his mother, who never had formal custody. Contacted by TIME, Kutz insisted the adoption was "100% honest" but refused to add any details...
...people who drink three liters of alcohol a day are alcoholics," says a Chicago psychiatrist who was a victim of incest. During the past decade, the definition of incest has been broadened to include fondling, rubbing one's genitals against a child, and excessive or suggestive washing of a youngster's pubic area, among other sexual behaviors...
...that violates a youngster's right to buy whatever toy he wants...
...dollar a day educated him. "Working in lumber camps in those days," he recalls, "would make a communist out of anybody." He joined the party in 1927 and spent several years in the early 1930s at Moscow's Marx- Engels-Lenin Institute. When he returned, the brash youngster started organizing workers and getting in trouble. In the Little Steel Strike in Warren, Ohio, authorities charged him with using explosives, and in Minneapolis they arrested him for inciting a riot. In 1940 he was convicted of fraud and forgery in an election scandal and spent 90 days in jail...
Making it today can be more challenging than ever for young men who are * poor, black or Hispanic. Although recent reports suggest that the number of black students completing high school is growing, thousands continue to fall by the wayside. Nearly one-third of the youngsters in James' class dropped out before graduation. In the Bridgeport area, the unemployment rate for black and Hispanic males between ages 16 and 19 is 38.5%, more than five times the rate for the general population. Idleness often leads to illicit activity. Local police arrested 1,914 juveniles in 1989; 158 of them were...