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Perhaps the newest, and most unlikely, recruits in the battle against divorce are lawyers. Last fall Lynne Gold-Bikin, a divorce attorney in Norristown, Pennsylvania, who chairs the family law division of the American Bar Association, founded the Preserving Marriages Project. "Divorce lawyers as individuals have no vested interest in saving marriages," Gold-Bikin says. "It's not our business. But we know the problems more than anyone else. Every day we see kids being yanked back and forth. Enough. I'm sick of people not recognizing what they're doing...
...profile position as acting comptroller of the American University of Beirut made him an unlikely target for terrorists. He was further protected, he believed, by his marriage to a Lebanese woman and his conversion to Islam in 1985. Nonetheless, as he left his campus apartment on Sept. 12, the Norristown, Pa., native was ambushed by four gunmen of the Shi'ite Revolutionary Justice Organization, pistol-whipped and loaded into the trunk of a car. He was the second American to be abducted in Lebanon that week...
Since shortly after Cicippio's disappearance, his brother Thomas, 65, has kept a running tally on the front lawn of his Norristown home of the number of days Joseph has been in captivity. "I always felt the hostages were kept on the back burner," says the retired postal worker. "I had no way of knowing what was happening...
Also present for the news conference was Elaine Collett, wife of British hostage Alec Collett. Relatives of hostage Joseph Cicippio of nearby Norristown were to attend the luncheon...
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