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...reported each year -- 87,340 in 1985 -- is believed to be about half the total actually committed. Experts say the victim knows the assailant in at least a third of all rapes. Says Koss: "You're a lot more likely to be raped by a date than by a stranger jumping out of the bushes...
...they're going to run into AIDS," says Anna Gomez, 29, in South Miami's Parallel Bar. Says Playwright (Torch Song Trilogy) and Gay Activist Harvey Fierstein: "It's very hard for straight people to understand what the hell this is. The ugliness of the disease is that every stranger has it; everyone you like doesn't have...
Among the NSC staff, Colonel North was discreet about his beliefs, but he has eagerly shared his experiences with outsiders. Two years ago, he told a complete stranger about a healing he had undergone. The Rev. Stephen King, an evangelical pastor at the Cherrydale Baptist Church in Arlington, Va., recalls that North sat down next to him in a barber shop and joyously recounted how a few years before he had been contorted by wracking back pain while in the field with a group of officers. One of the officers, a fellow charismatic, knelt down before North and prayed fervently...
...anonymity soon attracted oddballs. A father in New Mexico came home to find his 13-year-old daughter being visited by a 26-year-old man who had posed as a teen on the phone. The stranger brought his own bottle. Two Albuquerque callers used Scoopline to arrange a drug purchase. Profanity became common on the network; sexual propositions were offered. Eavesdropping parents and some teenagers complained to the telephone companies...
...never having been "kept" by a man, and we see a woman excessively proud of the swimming pool in back of the Los Angeles home she purchased with her own earnings, the house in which she was to die alone. We also see a woman who was no stranger to the casting couch, who occasionally prostituted herself to earn money during her days as a budding starlet and who had more abortions, at least a dozen, than she did orgasms, probably none...