Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whether accomplice or victim, Lee Hart was crucial to her husband's decision. She campaigned by his side and held his hand. But beneath her public graciousness, the wronged wife emerged as a reluctant team player, whose % composure, like her husband's, seemed on the verge of cracking. "No one will ever know how much we went through last May," she said. "It was hell...
Some of the year' s most unforgettable photographs focus on a superpower summit, a stock- market panic and a congressional probe into a scandal that shook a government. Others are on a more human scale: a Pontiff embracing a young AIDS victim, a preacher fallen from grace, a wide- eyed little girl rescued from a well in Texas. All are presented in a 24- page portfolio...
...death to emphysema. Five days later Susan Snow, another Auburn resident, died after swallowing an Extra- Strength Excedrin capsule that had been laced with cyanide. Nickell's widow Stella told authorities that her husband had taken Excedrin from the same product lot. They concluded that Nickell too was the victim of a cyanide-laced capsule. The two deaths sparked a major criminal investigation and prompted Excedrin manufacturer Bristol-Myers to issue a nationwide recall...
...each year. An estimated 2 million to 4 million women are beaten by husbands or boyfriends, more than are hurt in auto accidents, rapes or muggings. The FBI says that every four days a woman is beaten to death by a man she knows well. Despite comfortable stereotypes, the victims are hardly limited to uneducated or disadvantaged women. Many are from society's upper echelons. At least 10% of professional men beat their wives. One well-to-do victim: Charlotte Fedders, author of the recently published Shattered Dreams (Harper & Row; $17.95). Her book is a harrowing account...
There are small signs that such attitudes are improving. The Charleston, S.C., police department, for example, now requires officers to arrest an abusive spouse even if the victim declines to press charges. To make the collar sting, the assailant is arrested at his place of work. "As long as he's assaulting her within their own little world, it can continue," says Police Chief Reuben Greenberg. "At work there's a social cost." Ultimately that public exposure may be the most effective deterrent to spouse abuse. "We have the right in the U.S. to peace and tranquillity," says a former...