Word: laura
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chilly monday night, Laura Richards and Mark Geyman are sitting in a living room in Jeffersonville, Indiana, their hands clasped tightly together in Laura's lap. This attractive, clean-cut couple met last May through a mutual friend and got engaged in November, and they are happy to tell John and Patti Thompson, their mentors in the St. Augustine Catholic Church's marriage-preparation program, all about their wedding plans. It will be a big June affair, Laura says, with eight bridesmaids and eight groomsmen, two flower girls, a ring bearer and two priests. Patti Thompson cuts through the chatter...
...conversation grinds to a brief, awkward halt, then takes a turn into the wilderness-into the thicket of this young couple's most intimate concerns and darkest fears. Patti tells Laura, a 29-year-old department store salesclerk, that in her opinion it is O.K. to take birth-control pills on the advice of her doctor to help with pms. Then John, coordinator of family ministry at St. Augustine, says, "Is either one of you jealous...
...Yeah," admits Mark, who works in international customer service for United Parcel Service. He laughs and adds, "She gets jealous of some of the girls in the office," then explains how Laura once visited him at his previous job and became uncomfortable after she overheard him repeatedly compliment a female co-worker on her job performance. Laura smiles nervously, fidgets with a pen and says nothing...
...Reported by Ronald Buchanan/San Andres Larrainzar and Laura Lopez/ Mexico City
After days of hunting Zapatista rebels in the southern Chiapas state, Mexican officials declared that "order and legality have been re-established in the region." If so, it has come about in a most brutal fashion. TIME Mexico City bureau chief Laura Lopez reports from Chiapas that as guerilla leaders have taken refuge in the jungle, the Mexican military has cut off virtually all their supply lines. Government tanks and transports have poured into dozens of villages, frightening thousands of people who had secretly fed and supported the Zapatistas into fleeing into the jungle. Lopez reports: "They...