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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Luckily, Reagan had called in reinforcements. He enlisted his daughter Maureen to work part-time at the Republican National Committee. Her job: to encourage more Republican feminists to become involved in party politics. But some White House aides fear that she will be a renegade advocate who will stir up even more trouble within the Administration. "She is a 600-pound gorilla," said a top Reagan adviser bluntly. "She can intimidate anybody. She'll go right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rabbit Punches | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

...John became. He left home after high school, joined the Navy, but failed to mature. "I couldn't deal with adults. I was a loner and avoided people unless I was picking fights with them." He drank too much, married a divorced woman with a three-year-old daughter, and discovered that "emotionally, I was in a desert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Child Abuse: The Ultimate Betrayal | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

...becoming a woman in my eyes." Their relationship became directly sexual, and he persuaded her not to tell her mother. But when he slapped the girl around for missing school too much, she revealed their secret. Her mother reported the story to the sheriff and left home with her daughter and a son she had had with John. For 2 ½ years, John fought molestation charges through the court system, finally paying an $800 fine and spending four years on probation. "When my daughter rejected me, that was the end of my world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Child Abuse: The Ultimate Betrayal | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

...housewife from South Hadley, Mass., was first beaten by her husband when she was pregnant. Last summer Barbara's husband hurled a dinner plate across the kitchen at her. His aim was off. The plate shattered against the wall and a piece of it struck their four-year-old daughter in the face, blinding the child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wife Beating: The Silent Crime | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

There has been an increase in incidents of gang rape, particularly on college campuses. Nine Ohio State athletes were called before a Columbus grand jury last April to testify about an alleged "rape train" that occurred in February in a dormitory; the victim, the daughter of a minister, never returned to school. At Duke University last year, Beta Phi Zeta was dissolved following a university investigation of an alleged gang rape at the fraternity house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rape: The Sexual Weapon | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

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