Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rest. The investigation of the Khobar Towers bombing has completely collapsed. We suspect there was Iranian involvement. But the Saudis are not cooperating with our investigation. And Clinton is not prepared to risk either offending an ally (Saudi Arabia) or confronting an enemy (Iran). Jenny Haun, the widow of an Air Force navigator killed in the Khobar bombing, summarized thus the Administration's handling of the case: "They're weak...
When you've spent 27 years in prison, every birthday is precious. NELSON MANDELA of South Africa made his 80th even more so by marrying his sweetheart, GRACA MACHEL, 52, the widow of a former President of Mozambique and an advocate for international child welfare. Rumors of wedlock had been rife, but Mandela had betrayed no hint of matrimony, even as he received birthday gifts early on Saturday at the presidential residence in Pretoria. Then, in the afternoon, a press conference of "national importance" was announced, luring reporters from Mandela's home outside Johannesburg. With the press...
Irene Silverman, a wealthy 82-year-old widow, was very particular about who rented the eight antique-filled apartments in her swank Manhattan town house. But when 23-year-old Manny Guerin sauntered into her marble lobby in mid-June, she readily handed over the keys to a first-floor flat. Guerin, who dropped the name of a friend of a friend of Silverman's, seemed an ideal fit for her upper-class boardinghouse. Six feet tall with blue eyes and slicked-back blond hair, he was a smooth talker with a Jay Gatsby wardrobe. He tooled around town...
...dorm floor. Campus groups have asked the college to formally protect transgenders, but Harvard being Harvard, the university is studying the issue. Transgenders are pushing ahead in the courts as well. In a little-noticed but groundbreaking case last year, a Minnesota male-to-female transsexual won Social Security "widow's benefits" following her husband's death in 1995. The Social Security Administration declined to grant them at first but reversed itself after the woman appealed, with the A.C.L.U.'s help...
...celebrate his 80th birthday by marrying Machel, 52, his companion of two years. "Mandela is staying coy and there's no certainty, but the signs are that there may be a small wedding at his home on Saturday," says TIME Johannesburg bureau chief Peter Hawthorne. Machel is the widow of Samora Machel, the first president of independent Mozambique, who died in a plane crash in 1987. South Africa's Truth Commission is currently probing allegations that foul play by the apartheid authorities may have contributed to that crash...