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Brigadier General Norman ("Dutch") Cota, assistant commander of the 29th Division, waved his .45 pistol as he strode heedlessly through the gunfire. When he found a cluster of soldiers in the shelter of the embankment, he asked them who they were. They said they were Rangers. "Then, goddammit," said the general, "if you're Rangers, get up and lead the way." They did. Under the cover of a brushfire that had been started by the Navy shelling, 35 men managed to scale the bluffs and get behind the German gun positions...
DIED. Francis Schaeffer, 72, Christian theologian and a leading scholar of evangelical Protestantism; of cancer; in Rochester, Minn. Schaeffer, a Philadelphia-born Presbyterian, and his wife in 1955 founded L'Abri (French for "the shelter"), a chalet in the Swiss Alps known among students and intellectuals for a reasoned rather than emotional approach to religious counseling. His 23 philosophical books include the bestseller How Should We Then Live...
...passes, fewer women will file for t.r.o.'s say workers in Boston area shelters that offer refuge to battered women and their children. According to Josephine Mattina, who works at the Dove Shelter in Quincy, the proposed $5 fee will stop many women from filing for the orders. Mattina says that more than 90 percent of the women arriving at the Dove Shelter do so with only their children and the clothes on their backs. "The husband almost always controls the money. He's not going to let her get away with $5," she says...
...shelter workers are skeptical that their groups can fill the gap. Deborah Battista, who works at the Harbor Me shelter in East Boston, says that Massachusetts shelters, which last year temporarily housed 34,444 women and children, could never afford to foot the bill for t.r.o. applications. "Shelters exist on minimal state and private funding," she says...
SOCIETY BEING as chaotic as it is these days, the odds against maintaining a stable family are increasingly slim. Moreover, with the threat of nuclear annihilation and large-scale destruction becoming increasingly likely, families continue to use any means possible to shelter their children from the unpleasant realities of the world...