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...abuser's commander often isn't sympathetic to the battered spouse, according to Sadonna Polhill, who is the top caseworker at the Killeen shelter. "They'll tell the wife, 'This is a bunch of bull---- quit making these accusations because you're ruining your husband's career,' " she says. "They try to make the one who's being battered at fault." Anxiety over their husbands' careers has led to a sharp drop in the number of women -- from 85% to 50% over the past two years -- who permit the shelter's staff to alert military officials to the women...
Rabin had discovered that Arafat failed to pen his name to six accompanying maps that spelled out important terms of the deal. The Prime Minister threatened to quit the ceremony unless Arafat relented. Four minutes later, the parties reappeared. The audience applauded in relief as Arafat returned to the desk and methodically wrote in annotations above his signature on the documents...
...after Awad moved to America, he was shunted from city to city. Little effort was made to help him learn English or start a new life. In 1986 he quit the witness program and opened a convenience store. After Rashid was arrested in Greece in 1988, Awad was persuaded to return to the witness program. While Athens and Washington wrangled over Rashid's extradition for the next three years, Awad was refused a passport and permission to visit his relatives abroad. He grew so depressed that he threatened to kill himself...
Hail to the Chief. Twin first baseman Kent Hrbek, who has said he might retire after this season at 34 because of the abuse his body has taken during 14 years in the major leagues, was told that he shouldn't quit because, after all, the Celtics' Robert Parish, who's 40, wants to play another season. "But he's the Chief," Hrbek said, "and I'm a wreck." And that was before he went on the DL again on Sunday with a strained right hamstring...
...budding painter and middling bassist, may seem a long shot for rock immortality. He died at 22, months before the group, which he had earlier quit, cut its first record. But according to Backbeat, Stu was the dreamboat heart of the combo and John Lennon (Ian Hart) was its soul. Paul McCartney (Gary Bakewell) and George Harrison (Chris O'Neill) only whined and purred, respectively, while Lennon and Sutcliffe did the heavy lifting. John, you see, was Liverpool's own angry young man and the sole creator of this proto-punk, ur-grunge band (don't you love revisionism...