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...Atlanta, Rita, 30, told TIME'S Roger Witherspoon that her husband William, 40, a hospital worker, asked her to come into the bedroom during a birthday party she was giving for neighborhood children. "He slapped me blind. He pulled the shotgun from the wall and dared me to move. I cried and asked him why he was bothering me. He just tore my clothes off. He said I was a bitch and used other ugly words. I asked him not to do that because the children and their parents were here. But he just left the room and told everyone...
...batterer is often afflicted with mind-bending insecurity. The man's wife, says Psychologist Walker, is "the emotional glue that holds him together." As a consequence, he is desperately afraid of losing her. "All the time I knew she was going to leave me," says William, the Atlanta birthday-party batterer. "She liked to play the song Slip Away, and I knew she was going to do it." Explains Dick Bathrick, a clinical psychologist who with a colleague runs the only program for wife abusers in Georgia: "The husband is trying to make her be closer to him by controlling...
...basement apartment and then, after a few weeks, disappears with Junie, the younger of Mary's two daughters. The surviving daughter, Alice, 13, grasps instinctively what Detective Jim Hackett of the department of missing persons grimly suspects: the little girl is dead, a month shy of her tenth birthday, and a madman is at large...
...last week's celebration of the Sultan's 37th birthday, His Highness inspected his troops from a gold-upholstered Land Rover, while Gucci-shod women in traditional black robes looked...
...Although since 1959 Britain has looked after nothing more than foreign affairs and defense for the Sultan, it has also, for an estimated annual fee of $12 million, supplied the nation with a highly disciplined corps of 750 Gurkha soldiers. In a rare interview on the eve of his birthday, the Sultan told TIME that there was no truth to speculation that the troops would be leaving with the British. "The Gurkha battalion will stay," he declared...