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Keetso and the Pittses were brought together through San Jose lawyers who arrange adoptions. She lived at the couple's home for three months before giving birth last July. But in April, Navajo officials, who refer to the child as Baby K., convinced a California judge that any decision about custody should rest with the tribal courts. At a hearing last week, a tribal judge in Tuba City returned Allyssa temporarily to the Pittses, but a final decision is still pending...
Ironically, the would-be adoptive father of Baby K. is one-quarter Indian, of the Tarascan tribe of Mexico. He claims that he would see to it that Allyssa is not entirely deprived of her heritage. But for Rick Pitts, when he imagines the child growing up on the reservation, the images of poverty blot out the virtues of cultural identity. "Look at the houses, look at the shacks," he says. "Most likely she'd grow up, get disgusted, leave and never come back." Last week Allyssa awaited her fate wearing a layer of sweet powder. A Navajo medicine...
Weld has said that he was considering teaching a graduate course with K-School Dean Graham T. Allison '62 on law and public policy and that he has considered researching at the Law School's Criminal Law Center...
...K is for Kathy Kitayama: She may be small, but she can swim. She is one of the Crimson's most effective drivers, and she can put in the breakaway goals with the best of them...
Councillors Alice K. Wolf and Francis H. Duehay '55 want to create an exemption in the rent control laws for professors who take sabbatical leaves and others who must leave the city for a year or two at a time. The city now considers homes rented for only a year at a time to be eligible for rent control...