Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...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...
...Morris Plains, N.J. "It's a habit, a routine," he said to the New York Times. "I couldn't break it for the life of me. I still have to stop there every day, even in snow, just to be sure that she's not lacking for anything." Her mother Julia came two or three times a week. "There's a radio in her room that is always on," she said, "and once in a while we bring down a tape and play some songs for her. I just couldn't imagine anyone lying in bed for ten years...
...Karen is in limbo," the mother said in January. "We're all in limbo...
...matter of Karen Ann Quinlan, the parents' petition has finally been granted. After she succumbed to pneumonia last week, held in the arms of her weeping mother, Joseph Quinlan said, "She died with dignity...