Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...craft can descend to depths of 20,000 ft. and remain underwater indefinitely. Essentially, it is a 16-ft.-long cage fashioned to protect a clutch of strobe lights, side-scanning sonar devices and an array of cameras from marine flotsam. The entire contraption is tied umbilically to the mother ship by a thick steel cable. When sonar patterns signal an interesting feature, the video cameras can be commanded to zoom in on the object. The images they pick up are relayed instantaneously through the cable to computers and video screens in the ship above, providing scientists with an Argo...
...mother, father and daughter disappeared, only to be sighted later mingling suspiciously with passengers. Authorities arrested the couple on grand-theft and child-endangerment charges. Police said Arias and his wife could be pickpockets, and that they had trained their 23-month-old daughter to do precisely the kind of swiping she had nearly pulled off. "Apparently her parents taught her to do this," said Sergeant Roger Belding. Authorities put the toddler in protective custody...
...first break in the case came, oddly, in Dover, Ark., in the July arrest of a publisher who was charged with counterfeiting adoption documents. Then last week the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service sprang a trap on a mother-daughter team described as the key dealers in a baby-smuggling ring that may have sold as many as 150 infants to American couples in the past two years. Juanita Leyva-Vargas, 52, and her daughter Melinda, 25, were arrested in San Diego after they handed a five-day-old Mexican infant to Phil and Linda Phillips of Kalama, Wash. Authorities...
ARRESTED. Steven Wayne Benson, 34, ambitious, financially and maritally troubled heir to an estimated $10 million tobacco fortune; on charges that on July 9 he planted two pipe bombs in the family station wagon, killing his widowed mother and foster brother and seriously wounding his sister, after his much tried parent, discovering that he had apparently looted some $2 million from her investment account, threatened to cut him out of her will and the family enterprises; in Naples, Fla. Evidence linking him to the crime included his known familiarity with explosives and electronics and a latent fingerprint of his found...
...Guinnesses are really too kind to mother and aunties with the forgiving explanation of their power-groupie behavior as "a need to link personal love to a general cause." As adolescents, Unity and her younger sister Jessica turned their rooms into political statements. Unity covered her walls with swastikas and a portrait of Hitler. Jessica decorated hers with hammers and sickles. They shouted party slogans at each other like cheerleaders for opposing teams. When the going got really hot, they wound up in a pillow fight. Jessica moved to the U.S. and stuck with the Communist Party until...