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...Square and its environs have seen some other major changes during the past year. The Charles Square Hotel and mall complex, which opened last March, have added an ultra-ritzy dimension to Square consumerism. But business for Laura Ashley, Crabtree and Evelyn and the other higher-priced retail establishments hasn't been as good as expected...
...LAURA...
Four years after her parents divorced in 1971, she moved from Guadalajara to Texas with her Mexican mother. Taking advantage of her father's U.S. nationality, Laura became a naturalized citizen in 1979, when she was 14. Bilingual in Spanish and English, she added French during a year of school in Switzerland and did a stint as a social worker in India. Two years ago, a friend in El Paso encouraged Herring to enter a beauty contest. Chosen Miss El Paso in 1984, she became Miss Texas this year and finally Miss U.S.A., the first Hispanic and the first foreign...
...Laura was also at odds with her mother. The two admitted they had not spoken to each other for 16 months prior to last November. The daughter claimed that they had quarreled over her mother's refusal to tell the FBI about John Walker's spying and thus break Mark's hold on Christopher. Laura considered going to the FBI alone, but her loyalties were divided. "I was torn between exposing my father and risking (his spending) his entire life in jail," she said. "I do love my father." At the same time, Laura claimed, her mother had warned...
Finally, after Laura broke the ice with a telephone call last Nov. 23, Barbara agreed to tell the FBI about John Walker's spying. Only afterward did the women learn that Laura's brother Michael, 22, had also been implicated in his father's espionage ring. Said Laura of her mother: "See the irony? She turns in my father so that I can fight for my son, and her own son is now a victim...