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...told Time that they had sounded the first alarm about possible sexual assault two years before police rolled up the prostitution network. At the beginning of 2000, at least one social worker alerted law-enforcement officials that some of the children might have been sexually abused, says Dominique Le Clerc, deputy director of social services for the Angers-based Maine and Loire council. Two more warnings came in 2001, when a girlfriend of one of the accused told social workers about the sexual abuse - more than a year before the man was questioned by police. Says Le Clerc...
...moral guidelines while expecting to be treated as Catholics in good standing. One cannot be a good Catholic and still support choice on the issue of abortion. Communion is a statement of unity with Christ and his church. A pro-choice stand is a contradiction of that unity. ALBERT CLERC Houston...
...first time since her own teens, however, Navratilova faces not just one but an abundance of worrisome competitors -- several young enough to be her daughters. Says Patrice Clerc, director of the French Open: "Tennis is getting to be a younger and younger sport. We've seen something similar in gymnastics and swimming, and now we're seeing it here." The fastest-rising women are actually girls. Monica Seles, 16, beat Navratilova in the finals of the Italian Open in May, then won her next two tournament finals against Graf, including the French Open, where she became the youngest winner...
...Opens, scampering across grass and clay with an iron reserve that unsettled opponents and turned everyone else into admirers. But two months ago Bjorn Borg announced that the thrill had gone, and last week in Monaco he played his final tournament. In the first round, facing José-Luis Clerc, 24, Borg bobbed along the baseline like the champion of yore, putting the Argentine away in 77 minutes, 6-1, 6-3. But the next day, against Frenchman Henri Leconte, 19, Borg went down 4-6, 7-5, 7-6. Still, his sights are set differently now. "I know exactly...
...this year? The top seed will be Jose Luis Clerc. You never heard of him? A relative unknown, despite his ninth-place world ranking. Clerc's obscurity symbolizes the problems haunting the only world-class tennis tournament that can be reached on the Green Line. Last year he beat one James Scott Connors, whom the tournament committee had paid in the neighborhood of $50,000 just to show up and help sell tickets. With Connors out of the lineup early, sales slumped and the tournament ended up just breaking even. Which, considering the huge amounts of money it had lost...