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...centuries of American politics, there have been only three women Governors, and all three-Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming, Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson of Texas and Lurleen Wallace of Alabama-followed in their husbands' footsteps. Congresswoman Ella Grasso, 55, of Windsor Locks, Conn., is not accustomed to following in anyone's footsteps; her husband of 32 years is a retired school principal, and the toehold she won in the statehouse in Hartford was strictly her own achievement...
...Hebrew. "We are police looking for terrorists." Most of the inhabitants, sleepy and frightened, refused to comply with the demand. But a forester named Joseph Cohen, 48, opened his door?and was immediately cut down by automatic-weapons fire. His son Eliahu, 4, was also killed, and his daughter Miriam, 5, wounded. His wife Fortuna, seven months pregnant, tried to flee the intruders, but was machine-gunned. The only one in the family not killed or wounded was 16-month-old Yitzhak Cohen. He never attracted attention by crying; he is a deaf-mute...
...before, he had divorced three of his four Moslem wives: Senior Wife Miriam, sister of a former Foreign Minister, who fell out with Amin and fled the country last year; Second Wife Kay, a Lugbara and a cousin of Lieut. Colonel Ondoga, and Third Wife Nora, related to a cousin of ex-President Obote. The remaining wife, Madina, Amin says, was given to him as a gift in 1971; she apparently has no political ties to any Amin enemy...
...additional question, raised by Walter and Miriam Schneir in their book Invitation to an Inquest, is whether Gold was even in New Mexico at the time he was supposed to have contacted Greenglass. The Schneirs have demonstrated that there is good reason to believe that the hotel registration card which the FBI used as documentation was a forgery...
...MIRIAM H. MICHAEL...