The fight for Hilary; Half a world away, a 7-year-old is caught in a legal tangle; New Zealand to referee hostile battle
Feb. 28, 1990
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CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Until this week, it seemed as if Hilary Foretich's life might finally become as neat as the tidy rose gardens of this English-style city.
But the custody battle that followed her around the world has now prompted a media circus here - destroying the secure routine of her life.
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Jim Bakker's back; Televangelist in court for resentencing
Aug. 22, 1990
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Jim Bakker once had it all. The PTL televangelism empire. Gold-plated toilets. Even air-conditioned doghouses.
His tumultuous fall from grace put him behind bars, sweeping floors and teaching inmates in a Minnesota federal prison to stop smoking.
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Capital's 'promise'; Mayor-elect hopes to revive beleaguered city; Dixon file
Dec. 17, 1990
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Washington, D.C., Mayor-elect Sharon Pratt Dixon comes on strong. She leans forward and looks you straight in the eye, glad to answer questions - but asking them, too.
Dixon, who as a child had no difficulty dreaming of being a major league baseball pitcher, now dreams of resuscitating her hometown. She says she loves challenges. If so, she's won her dream job.
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JFK Jr. passes N.Y. bar exam
Nov. 5, 1990
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The sweat is over.
John F. Kennedy Jr. has reportedly passed the New York state bar exam after two highly publicized failures.
If the dashing 29-year-old prosecutor had not mustered a hit on this try, he would have lost his $30,000-a-year job in the office of Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau.
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Extremist rabbi slain in NYC
Nov. 6, 1990
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NEW YORK - Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League, was killed in a New York hotel Monday night by a "smiling" gunman.
The Brooklyn-born militant was pronounced dead at 9:57 p.m. EST at Bellevue Hospital.
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Queen, USA in a mutual embrace
May 16, 1991
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WASHINGTON - The queen got caught in a squeeze play Wednesday. And that was even before she entered Memorial Stadium in Baltimore.
While visiting a home in one of the poorer sections of the nation's capital, Queen Elizabeth II of England was royally hugged by Alice Frazier, 67. The breach of protocol - one shouldn't dare to THINK about touching the monarch, let alone bear-hug her - didn't faze Her Majesty too greatly. She smiled weakly and quickly pulled away.
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London in reach for queen's host
Aug. 16, 1991
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Alice Frazier, the Washington, D.C., grandmother who made headlines when she breached protocol and hugged Queen Elizabeth II, is planning a trip to London this fall.
The queen visited Frazier's home during her tour of the USA in May.
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Cheerleader mom guilty of seeking hit man
Dept. 4, 1991
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HOUSTON - A 37-year-old mother was convicted Tuesday of trying to hire a hit man to kill the mother of her daughter's cheerleading squad rival.
The jury deliberated for five hours before finding Wanda Webb Holloway guilty of conspiring to murder Verna Heath, mother of Amber Heath, 13. Amber had beaten out Holloway's daughter Shanna Harper for a spot on the cheerleading squad.
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Standing by Pam Smart
Sept. 24, 1991
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At the women's prison in Goffstown, N.H., at least 50 letters arrive daily for Pamela Smart.
"She gets so much mail we have to bring it home," says her mother, Linda Wojas. "The prison officials think all that paper in her cell would be a fire hazard."
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Swaggart: God told me to keep ministry
Oct. 18, 1991
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As Jimmy Swaggart drifted to sleep one night this week, he says, the Holy Spirit rolled over him and gave him a message: "Don't quit."
But the Holy Spirit had another message for those asking about the TV evangelist's latest escapade with a prostitute.
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North's book sheds no light, just 'suspicion'
Oct. 21, 1991
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Almost five years after the Iran-contra scandal broke, Oliver North is out with his version of the story in 446 pages.
But "Under Fire: An American Story" provides little to shock or surprise.
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Former D.C. mayor entering Va. prison
Oct. 25, 1991
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Former Washington, D.C., mayor Marion Barry enters a minimum-security prison in Petersburg, Va., on Saturday, but don't count him out of the political arena for good.
"Politics has been his life. He'll come back the reformer, the outsider, the protector of the little man," says Washington's WAMU-FM political analyst Mark Plotkin.
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Acquittal in Kahane case angers many
Dec. 23, 1991
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Jewish groups outraged by the acquittal of an Egyptian-born Muslim in the death of radical Rabbi Meir Kahane blasted the U.S. justice system Sunday and vowed to pursue civil rights charges against the man.
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Kennedy polishes his image; Senator puts '91 behind
Jan. 2, 1992
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BOSTON - Sen. Edward Kennedy, slimmed down and looking fit, is working to put behind him one of his worst years in public life.
Across his home state of Massachusetts, Kennedy seems to be showing up everywhere - at radio stations, on college campuses, at a gay-rights fund-raiser.
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Wattleton: Time for TV; Moving on from Planned Parenthood
Feb. 24, 1992
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NEW YORK - As Planned Parenthood president Faye Wattleton stands framed in the doorway of her office, all 5-foot, 11-inches of her, she looks like a glossy women's magazine cover come to life.
The abortion debate is ugly; yet even those who oppose Wattleton's stance in favor of choice say she's brought grace and style to an unsightly arena. She's self-assured and so engaging that feminist Gloria Steinem says, "there's no one I'd rather go dancing with more."
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'Hurting' Tammy seeks divorce
March 13, 1992
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After nearly 31 years of marriage, Tammy Faye Bakker says she's calling it quits with her husband, imprisoned TV evangelist Jim Bakker.
"For years I have been pretending everything is all right," she wrote supporters from her Orlando, Fla., home. "I cannot pretend any more."
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Wayne's world of debt; Big-bucks singer 'victim of recession'
Aug. 19, 1992
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That Wayne Newton - he's quite a guy. He pops up on Arsenio and Roseanne, writes and sings a hit song about a note Elvis once wrote in a hotel room and makes $250,000 a week when he plays Las Vegas.
Who would know he's really just a typical Joe who can't make ends meet?
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Chess King Bobby Fischer is back; First match will occur near Bosnia
Aug. 31, 1992
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SVETI STEFAN, Yugoslavia - Forget about Elvis. To many people here, the real king is alive and well - and ready to begin his comeback.
Surrounded by 200 bodyguards, American chess genius Bobby Fischer has emerged from years of seclusion following his abdication of the world chess championship in 1975.
