Word: husbanded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another marriage was deemed not admissible as evidence. The judge thought there was "a fifty-fifty chance" that Foretich was guilty, and gave him unsupervised visitation rights. Defying a court order, Morgan hid her daughter away rather than return her to her father. Somehow Morgan, not her ex-husband, ended up in jail, without a trial, for more than two years...
...less famous recent case, a Boston judge took complete custody rights away from Virginia LaLonde, whose only crime seems to be the failure to convince the courts that her ex-husband raped their daughter. The judge found the LaLonde child, a 12-year-old, to be too much under the influence of her mother. Her mother can no longer see her, and her father, the same man the girl called a rapist a few years ago, is now her sole guardian...
...total number of refugees over the past five months to 50,000. Some jumped at the opportunity without a moment's hesitation, others agonized over it. "We talked about it way into the night for days on end," said Christiane Weinbauer of Halle, who joined the exodus with her husband last week. "One minute we had decided to go, and the next we were staying for the sake of our relatives or the children or for reasons of security. Then we heard on a West German radio station that the people in the embassy in Prague were being taken...
...Philippine government continued to block the return of the body of Ferdinand Marcos, public outrage was growing over its lack of compassion. Critics across the political spectrum have called President Corazon Aquino's ban "un-Filipino." The government claimed that if Imelda Marcos was allowed to bring her husband home, his funeral might touch off disturbances that could threaten the country's economic recovery. Aquino knows the power of a funeral: her political career was ignited when massive crowds turned out for the 1983 burial of her husband Ninoy, assassinated while being escorted by Marcos' soldiers...
Marcos supporters have petitioned the Philippine Supreme Court to reverse its earlier decision denying re-entry to Marcos. In the meantime, Imelda plans to place her husband's body temporarily in an aboveground crypt. Plans for a wake in the auditorium of Manila's Honolulu consulate were dropped, perhaps after it was discovered that the hall was named after Ninoy Aquino...