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Young Abimael was born out of wedlock in the provincial capital of Arequipa. He was rejected by both his mother's family and his middle-class merchant father; acquaintances remember a boy who poured his energies into books. At age 10 he was beaten by police breaking up a strike, and as a university student he came under the influence of a Communist philosopher and a painter who regarded Stalin as insufficiently revolutionary. In 1962 Guzman was given a philosophy post at Huamanga University in Ayacucho, where he used his teaching pulpit to indoctrinate students. He was profoundly influenced...
Last night's "Murphy Brown" storyline centered on Quayle's controversial May speech, in which the vice president criticized Hollywood for glorifying single parenthood, citing fictional Murphy Brown's bearing of a child out of wedlock as an example...
...Washington, features a scene in which a dull-witted conservative Senator (George Gaynes) sees Murphy Brown on TV for the first time. What has Dan Quayle got against that "good-looking woman?" he asks his chief aide (John Ritter). "Well, Senator, she had a baby out of wedlock," the aide says. "But she's not real, is she?" replies the Senator, echoing the snide chorus of derision that greeted Quayle's attack on "a fictional character...
Whatever the motivation, Mrs. Bush's remarks put her at odds with Marilyn Quayle. The Vice President's wife last month contradicted her husband's public comments by insisting that if their 13-year-old daughter ever became pregnant out of wedlock, she would "carry the baby to term." Mrs. Bush had little use for this inflexible logic. Said she: "You can't pin a child down and say, 'You can't have an abortion; that's against the law.' " But the First Lady quickly added that any differences between the two women were a measure of the G.O.P...
Mama Rita thinks the steady Arthur is the best thing that ever happened to Patrick. Father James is half in love with Loreen, Tony's determined fiance. In touchingly comic ways, these parents -- mismatched themselves -- are determined to see their offspring securely in wedlock, as if the kids could not function on their...