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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battle over Allyssa is in part a legacy of the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act, a federal law that has been invoked in thousands of custody disputes. It empowers tribal courts to make custody and foster-care decisions in most cases involving American Indian children. A large proportion of such youngsters are in the care of adoptive or foster parents, a situation that results partly | from a high incidence of teenage pregnancy, parental alcoholism and out-of- wedlock births on the impoverished reservations. Before the 1978 law, it was common for state courts and child-welfare agencies to place Indian...
...critics of the law charge that it permits tribal courts to remove Indian children from foster homes where they have lived happily for years. They complain that it allows tribes to lay claim to children who have never lived on a reservation, simply because one of their parents is part Indian...
...growing number of shutouts, say admissions experts, is caused in part by ! ambitious parents who push their youngsters to carve too high on the academic hog. A name-brand college, says Steinbrecher, "has become a status symbol, like a Gucci shirt." Moreover, the crush of applicants from affluent white suburbs has created a generation of qualified look-alikes, all of whom simply cannot get in, especially when schools are seeking diverse student bodies. A third factor is what admissions people call the scalp takers: top students who sit on a fistful of acceptances, hogging places that might have been offered...
...hostages were found to be sufficiently fit to travel home to Kuwait. Kuwaiti officials privately claimed that the freeing of the captives was a vindication of their country's principled refusal to accede to the hijackers' chief demand, the release of 17 pro-Iranian terrorists convicted of taking part in attacks on the U.S. and French embassies in Kuwait in 1983. But the hijackers' safe passage out of Algeria not only prevents them from being brought to justice for killing two passengers in Larnaca but also frees them to commit terror anew...
None of these personas is totally false. All are part of the matrix that defines Gore: a Democrat who grasps America's role in a changing world, has fought for the rights of average citizens, understands the challenges posed by future technologies and has consistently supported Israel. "The truth is, Al Gore is a complex individual with a wide range of interests and a record of activity in each one of those areas," says an aide. "While that might be attractive in a person, it can be a disadvantage in a presidential candidate." But having failed to define himself, Gore...