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...Maoist from Manila? A leftist from rebel-torn Luzon? No, the angry orator was Maria Imelda (Imee) Marcos, 22, elder daughter of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos. Imee's outbursts coincided conveniently with her father's efforts to renegotiate the terms of American compensation to the Philippines for the use of the 191,705 acres occupied by Clark Air Base and the large Navy installation at Subic...
...whose members heroically retrieved the dead and wounded and rescued refugees in the midst of the shooting, estimated at week's end that at least 500 people had been killed and as many more wounded in the initial fighting. Most of the casualties appeared to be civilians like Maria Jesús Gadea...
From questionnaires filled out in public school classes in Toronto, University of Pittsburgh Psychologist Maria Kovacs found that 41% of the 127 children surveyed admitted having thought about suicide. A similar study conducted in Philadelphia suggests a comparable figure. Another study at U.C.L.A.'s Neuropsychiatric Institute concluded that 5% of the 662 preadolescent children treated there over a four-year period were seriously self-destructive or suicidal. Morris Paulson, the clinical psychologist who conducted the U.C.L.A. study, found a common denominator among these disturbed youngsters: "Every one of them had a home that wasn't providing the understanding...
...wear the letter A and bear the shame and humiliation." This trial, however, took place last week in Bowling Green, Ky., and the A stood not for adultery but for abortion. Under an obscure state statute that allows only licensed physicians to perform abortions after the first trimester, Maria Pitchford was prosecuted for performing an abortion on herself during the 24th week of pregnancy. The penalty: ten to 20 years in jail...
...relinquished that post to concentrate on his other job in Boston. Minnesota has grabbed two top Europeans: Britain's Neville Marriner as music director and Germany's Klaus Tennstedt as principal guest conductor. Los Angeles is easily the high roller in the game. It has captured Carlo Maria Giulini, 64, an Italian who is considered a master among maestros-but after having lost Zubin Mehta, 42, to New York...