Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...favorite daughter had eloped with a roué, leaving her parents bewildered and angry. So it was that Ahmed Reda Guedira, a royal counselor to King Hassan II of Morocco, faced a decidedly frosty reception in Washington last week when he visited Vice President George Bush, Secretary of State George Shultz and other Administration officials. A month ago the conservative Hassan, long a staunch U.S. ally, had suddenly initiated a treaty of friendship with Libya's radical strongman Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, Washington's Public Enemy No. 1. Officially the State Department admitted to being "surprised" by the improbable...
...using hormonal stimulants, Howard Jones "harvests" an average of 5.8 eggs per patient; it is possible to obtain as many as 17. "I felt like a pumpkin ready to burst," recalls Loretto Leyland, 33, of Melbourne, who produced eleven eggs at an Australian clinic, one of which became her daughter...
...widely. At the National Center for Surrogate Parenting, an agency in Chevy Chase, Md., the two parties never meet. At the opposite extreme is the case of Marilyn Johnston, 31, of Detroit. Johnston and the couple who hired her became so close during her pregnancy that they named their daughter after her. She continues to make occasional visits to see the child she bore and says, "I feel like a loving aunt...
...some way, candidates like Ferraro unwittingly invite this kind of treatment. She did not get to where she is by dint of a cause, ideology or even issue. Ferraro got to where she is because of who she is: daughter of poor immigrants, teacher, lawyer, mother, prosecutor-political assets she is not shy to exploit. She claims these to be the source of her values, and it was these values and those sources that she displayed so prominently in her acceptance speech in San Francisco. They are, in fact, the only discernible theme of her campaign...
...Khrushchev and one of the few Communist high officials' wives to appear frequently in public or to develop an independent identity; in Moscow on Aug. 8. A schoolteacher who married Khrushchev in 1924, she was his second wife and bore him three children (a son, Sergei, and a daughter, Rada, survive). After her husband's accession to power, she accompanied him on several trips abroad, notably to the U.S. in 1959, where she emerged as warm, witty and charming. After Khrushchev's ouster in 1964, followed by his death in 1971, she lived quietly at their dacha...