Published December 1988.
The Scotsman and the New Zealand Dominion
December 19 1988
The courtroom in Washington DC was tense and quiet. On his bench, Judge Herbert B Dixon was stoney-faced. All eyes were on the witness box, where a frail woman with a handsome face and long brown hair was speaking in a voice which kept sagging and breaking [...]
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Categories: Child abuse, US columns.
Published August 1988.
The Scotsman and the New Zealand Dominion
August 8 1988
Early in the last century, slaves who escaped from plantations in the South were smuggled to the relative freedom of the northern states along an “underground railroad” of supporters who risked the wrath of slave-owners and bounty-hunters to protect the fugitives.
Now, according to reports here, a new [...]
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Categories: Child abuse, US columns.
