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...mother Jane, coming of age during the Depression, took a bachelor's degree in physics and at 24 was about to go to graduate school at Columbia when she met and married Henry Reno, a 36-year-old police reporter for the Miami Herald. Tired of having his Danish surname, Rasmussen, mispronounced, he had picked his last name off a map of Nevada. The couple built a house out of cypress logs in the woods of rural Dade County; 43 years later, it survived Hurricane Andrew without losing more than a couple of shingles. In addition to the now legendary...
...issue has been debated recently in the Swedish, Danish, Swiss, British, Thai and Cypriot parliaments. Germany last year stiffened antitrafficking laws, and Belgium is set to do likewise. France has cracked down on the use of its Minitel -- a widely distributed video-text telephone service -- for child- | prostitution ads. But police face a daunting task in stemming the sex trade. Many of the foreign-women victims, unable to speak the language of the country, are loath to file complaints for fear of being injured by pimps or deported by authorities. And faced with the difficulty of sorting out which women...
...Press conference with the Danish Prime Minister and the President of the European Commission: "Thirty-one years ago, President Kennedy made a statement that I believe holds as true today as it did then. He said, 'We see in Europe a partner with whom we could deal on the basis of full equality...
...House said its preference for air strikes against the Serbs so the Bosnian Muslims can acquire the means to defend themselves was "on hold." The allies, Washington said, wouldn't consider the U.S. option until after the Bosnians voted on the U.N.-sponsored peace plan. "That's absurd," said Danish Foreign Minister Niels Petersen angrily. "The question of tying anything in the European Community's position to the referendum ((didn't even come up in)) our discussions" with Secretary of State Warren Christopher. "The real problem," says a White House aide, "is that Christopher couldn't sell the Europeans...
Invented by a Danish physician in 1984, the female condom is already available under the name Femidom in Britain, the Netherlands, Portugal, Norway and Switzerland, and will go on sale this month in France. The version made by Wisconsin Pharmacal is a 7-in.-long polyurethane sheath with a ring on each end. The inner ring is inserted into the vagina, much like a diaphragm, while the other ring remains outside...