Korean Escort: FOR ALBRIGHT, A BUSY DAY IN N. KOREA UNSCHEDULED TALKS, DESCRIBED AS "USEFUL," TOOK THREE HOURS. THERE ALSO WAS A DAZZLING PERFORMANCE WITH A CAST OF THOUSANDS.
Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright's first day in North Korea produced a lively day of diplomacy yesterday, including three hours of unscheduled talks initiated by leader Kim Jong Il and a lavish stadium performance by tens of thousands.State Department spokesman Richard Boucher characterized the talks with Kim as "substantive and useful," involving "issues that were of concern to us." Washington's greatest...
Korean Escort: Saturday's Rabinowitz memorial a moving, marathon effort
THE DEDICATION OF THE new courthouse named in honor of the late Jay Rabinowitz will take place Friday afternoon, a ceremony to be marked with speeches and music. It will be followed on Saturday with a ceremony of a different kind, an unofficial moving memorial to be observed by about 18 of the participants in the 39th running of the Equinox Marathon.There was a time when Jay Rabinowitz was a determined competitor in what used to be called the "Centurian" division of...
Korean Escort: FACES IN A CHANGING PICTURE
This is the first of a four-part series on how child adoption is changing. Articles Monday through Wednesday will profile Alan and Judy Prince, a couple that adopted 13 special-needs children; the Bosworths, a young couple with two Colombian babies, and the Schomakers, a white family that adopted two black sons. Marilyn and Bob Faust's goal for the past four years has been simple: to have a child. After endless temperature chart readings, doctors' appointments and...
Korean Escort: In this family, babies come from airplanes
On Sept. 7, Matthew Stephens arrived at his Upper Saucon Township home to find his wife, Eva, in tears. His heart lurched when she said they'd gotten a call from the agency they had worked with to adopt their daughter, Lydia, three years earlier.His first thought: Some belated problem with the adoption had cropped up. What Eva said next changed everything.She told Matthew the agency, Pearl S. Buck International in Hilltown, Bucks County, had called to say...
Korean Escort: ADOPTING CHILDREN OUTSIDE U.S.
Kathy Siltzer had already experienced the pain of losing other children when she and husband, Randy, decided to adopt in 2000.They approached the Wyoming Children's Society, an agency that deals with special needs and international adoptions.They finalized the required home study visit with the agency in June 2000 but didn't have any luck with instate adoption because of their personal situation."We just had several things that...