Word: daughters
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...part to various courts' strict interpretations of Pennsylvania's involuntary- commitment law. A year ago, she was committed for 20 days after trying to choke her mother but, against the recommendation of her psychiatrist, was released yet again. Last week Seegrist's mother Ruth tried to persuade her daughter to commit herself to a hospital for treatment. "She said I had no business telling her what to do and that I couldn't make her do anything," the mother said. The same day Seegrist donned Army combat fatigues, drove to a Springfield, Pa., mall and began firing at shoppers with...
...abilities were evident at an early age. The daughter of a steelworker who had sung with a gospel quartet, Kathleen was the youngest of seven children, a diligent student growing up in a segregated but, as she remembers it, happy Portsmouth neighborhood. Even as a child singing in her Protestant church choir, she was something special. Remembers Voice Teacher Charles % Varney, who first heard her sing when she was eight: "It was a shock to me to hear this tiny little thing singing so beautifully. I went to her later and told her God had blessed her, and she must...
Such paternal concern was a bit late. Before he was caught by the FBI last May, John Walker had enticed his son, 23, into stealing secret documents from the U.S. Navy so that the father could sell the papers to Soviet agents. He also tried to coax his daughter Laura, 25, into the family spy ring while she served as a communications specialist in the Army, but she refused. John had recruited his brother Arthur, 50, a former Navy officer, to supply secrets about Navy ship vulnerabilities from a defense contractor in Chesapeake, Va. Arthur pleaded guilty in August...
...FATHER, HIS DAUGHTER...
...Israeli Cyclops was victorious in the Six-Day War and died peacefully in bed. But before and between these terminals a tragedy unfolded, according to his daughter. Although the memoirs of Yael, 46, are cloaked in raiments of respect ("It was easy to admire him . . . he looked his best in uniform"), Moshe Dearest is remembered mostly for his inadequacies. He posed as a family man, but philandered compulsively ("His choice of bed partners was vulgar and in poor taste") and complained about Yael's boyfriends like a jealous lover. In the '70s other, wider conflicts intervened. After Israel's near...