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...making it illegal to evade state parent-notification laws by taking a minor across state lines--will become priorities for the President or get through the closely divided Senate. "If all they can muster is the elimination of one abortion method, that's a loss," says former antiabortion lobbyist Teresa Wagner, editor of a new book of essays about the movement. "It's a catastrophic loss...
...Casa Pia, the country's biggest school for deprived children. Families Minister Felix Bagão sacked the school's administration, and its employee Carlos Silvino was arrested and charged with being a pedophile and using children for prostitution. The announcement followed claims by former Families Minister Maria Teresa Costa Machado that Silvino procured children for a ring of top people including diplomats, journalists and society figures. Machado said she drew police attention to the allegations in 1982 but the investigation was dropped in 1987, with evidence and statements from alleged victims destroyed. BELGIUM Race Riot Police charged Dyab...
...Kerry, has fewer problems. He coasted to victory on Tuesday, and his criticism of last year's Tora Bora battle in Afghanistan, which failed to capture Osama bin Laden, and his credentials as a Vietnam War hero give him an edge. Kerry is a ferocious campaigner, and his wife Teresa Heinz is the widow of the late Senate Republican and Heinz ketchup heir John Heinz, giving Kerry access to a considerable campaign war chest...
Domestic bliss has fled the household of Seiku Murmu and his wife Monica Besra--and it's all Mother Teresa's fault. Monica is a celebrity in the small village of Dangram, 460 miles northeast of Calcutta, because she is the beneficiary of what many Catholics believe is the first posthumous miracle of Mother Teresa, founder of the Missionaries of Charity. On Sept. 5, 1998, the first anniversary of the nun's death, Monica was suffering abdominal pain caused, she believed, by a tumor. But the purported tumor vanished when Monica applied a medallion with an image of the late...
...with her," says Monica. A call to Sister Betta, who has been reassigned to another post of the Charity, produced a "no comment." Balurghat Hospital officials say the Catholic order has been pressuring them to say Monica's cure was miraculous. Calls to the office of Sister Nirmala, Mother Teresa's successor as head of the order, produced no comment as well...