Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week, as Berkowitz returned to court to be sentenced, it was Son of Sam's turn to put in an appearance. In a packed courtroom sat Stacy Moskowitz's mother and Robert Violante, Stacy's date the night of the murder, who is partly blind from the gunshot wounds he received. While the spectators waited for 1½ hr., guards struggled to bring the killer into the courtroom; he scratched and bit them, trying to rush for a window. Finally, disheveled and handcuffed, he was pushed into the room. His face was flushed, his eyes bulging...
...said she wanted to be a good Samaritan, described herself as "white, 23, blonde, green-eyed, slow to anger, strong-willed." Another was a medical student who asked to have her tuition paid for a year. A third was a 28-year-old mother of two who wanted to bear another child, but could not afford to keep it. One letter came from a man who volunteered his girlfriend. There was one drawback to the whole enterprise, however: its legality was questionable...
...attorney who placed the ad for the childless couple, checked with Wayne County juvenile court for an informal opinion. Judge James Lincoln said yes, a volunteer could legally bear a child for the couple to adopt, but no, the law did not allow the payment of fees to the mother for the service. Suddenly the reservoir of surrogates dried up. Explains Keane: "We don't have any of them now. As it turns out, all of them were interested in money...
Hospice personnel are trained to ease the social and emotional problems related to dying, doing everything from advising on the drafting of wills to caring for neglected pets. Jayne Murdock, a Ross, Calif., schoolteacher, recalls how her dying mother at first refused to see her grandchildren after she was brought home from the hospital. But when the visiting hospice team began reducing her pain and reassuring her and her family in other ways, a new tranquillity set in. Finally, the woman even let the youngsters give her medication and assist her about the house. Says Murdock: "I felt when...
...Mother My Self, Friday...