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James and Suzanne Cowan Highland Park, Mich...
Most of the patients who entered the modest house in north-central Los Angeles were poor Mexican aliens, and most were pregnant women. They were drawn to the makeshift clinic, called the Highland Medical Center, by the low child-delivery fees charged by Osteopath Joseph Emory, 55. Since 1974, in fact, Emory has delivered more than 700 babies, usually charging between $200 and $300 per case. Despite the low fees, the clinic's services were apparently no bargain. Last week Emory was arrested and charged with the murder of ten of the more than 25 infants who, during...
...visiting the paddock at Borrowdale Race Course (where blacks have separate stands). Cocktail chitchat centers on vacation plans and where to board the dog (a current favorite is one kennel that advertises: "Our boarders are exclusively handled by European staff"). There is mild pique that plans to visit popular highland resorts near the Mozambique border must now be abandoned ("not really safe, you know "), but some relief that gas rationing has been eased. "The people over there depend on us for jobs, money and food, "says a Highlands polo player, pointing to the sprawling African townships of Highfield and Harare...
...upper-class neighborhoods in Guatemala City survived. Ever since a 1917 earthquake that destroyed the city, such buildings have been designed with shocks in mind. The heaviest damage and most of the casualties occurred in country villages where crumbling adobe walls dropped heavy tile roofs on sleeping victims. The highland Indians were stunned at how easily their homes had disintegrated. "We need wood," said one who had saved his family of six but lost his house. "We cannot build of adobe again. It is of earth and it is our coffin...