Word: blaire
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...teenage pregnancy, there has also been a familiar pattern for young people dealing with this unwelcome event: first denial, then a creeping fear and perhaps a few fretful, secretive exchanges before the news finally comes out. In the case of "Mary Smith,'' a 15-year-old freshman at Blair High School, and her 16-year-old boyfriend Heath Mayfield, a junior varsity running back with a spanking-new Ford Mustang, the pregnancy was well into the fifth month before they finally confirmed it with a home-test...
...Heath's parents, various police officers and county officials, and a local physician and physician's assistant, charging trespass, false arrest and assault, among other things. The case, which will be heard in federal court in Lincoln, Nebraska, as early as the end of the year, has suddenly thrust Blair, a city of 7,250 that is so placid that mayoral candidates have run unopposed for the past 12 years, deep into the rancorous national debate over who has a right to influence a pregnant woman's decision to get an abortion...
Every Tuesday and Wednesday night, the baby is brought into Blair for a court-sanctioned visit with her father. He pays $50 a month in child support, but the Smiths must use $40 of that to pay their share of the court-appointed supervisor's $10-an-hour fee. Heath says he has returned his new Mustang so he can afford the payments...
...this stop the harassment and intimidation that the Smiths say they endured for months before finally moving out of Blair last summer. The day after the front-yard showdown, flyers turned up around town branding the Smiths "murderers." Constant sniping made it impossible for Mary to continue classes at Blair High School and left her afraid to leave home alone. "I used to be friends with both parties," says Mary's uncle Mike Scott. "But not with the Tulls anymore after what they've done. They stooped pretty low." The Smiths, who refuse to speak to the press, now live...
There is yet another clue to why last week's disclosure took so long. Though the documents generally support the White House contention that Foster's involvement in Whitewater was limited, they also show for the first time a link between Whitewater and James Blair, another old Arkansas friend of the Clintons'. Back in 1993, Americans had yet to discover that in the late 1970s, Hillary Clinton, following Blair's advice, had turned a $1,000 investment in the commodities market into a $100,000 profit. Making public in 1993 that Blair helped sell the Clintons' stake in Whitewater might...