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Katrina slept through most of her adoption hearing last week in the sun-washed Charleston, S.C., courtroom. Her would-be mother and father sat nervously alert. An attractive, wealthy couple from out of state, they eagerly testified about their four-acre country estate, swimming pool and well-protected play area as proof of their parental fitness. Yet it was Katrina, at 15 months all blond ringlets and neatly pressed ruffles, who spoke most eloquently on their behalf. Waking up in time to accompany the woman to the witness stand, Katrina clung hungrily to her side, cooing "Mama...
Katrina's new mother and father are one of hundreds of couples who flock to Charleston every year, drawn by the promise of easy adoptive parenthood. In most areas of the country, adoption is a frustrating process, burdened by the red tape and interminable waiting lists of state adoption agencies. Although a few other states also allow adoptions in local courts by nonresidents, South Carolina offers a unique blend of lax laws, aggressive lawyers and open-minded newspapers that accept classified ads from couples seeking babies. Federal regulations that are more rigorously enforced elsewhere, like the requirement that state...
...leaders seem to believe that a large infusion of dollars into areas susceptible to "Marxist revolution" is the only answer to Central America's problems. Historically, aid in this form has led most nations to increased corruption as well as economic and military dependency. John M. Goeke Charleston, Ill. The annual $1.6 billion in economic and military assistance proposed for Central America is not an enormous sum. The figure is less than the amount currently given to Egypt each year...
...Hudson Robinson South Charleston...
...drivers flocking to their local law offices. "There's a tremendous boom going on in the field," says Nichols, who publishes the Drinking/Driving Law Letter. "You're seeing it nationally, even in states without stiff penalties. The fear level is up all over." Attorney Reese Joye of Charleston, S.C., notes that a decade ago there were only about 30 lawyers in the entire country who had regular trial experience in drunken-driving cases. Today, he estimates, there are at least 100 in every state...