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Show A3 National Sunday, February 25. hhh) The Daily Herald, Provo, I'tah Quest for Hilary over as she's found in New Zealand Famed custody battle shifts from Washington to New Zealand her parents, but their ed Hilary Morgan declined to give an WASHINGTON (AP) - The an act which earned the mother, a her parents' travels, remained whereabouts accounting' countless mystery. hearts, the over. search for martyr's to in a But Hilary is war for her has widened. America's most famed child custody battle has boiled across two oceans in just the past week, first into the courtrooms of Britain, and now, into those of New Zealand. Hilary Foretich, 72 years old, has been found, by her father's investigators, living with her maternal grandparents in Christchurch. And there, presumably within days, the fight which has cost the girl's mother alone nearly $2 million and more than two years in will resume. Both parents jail intend to be there, with the prospect that another nation's courts will become embroiled in a case which already has produced more than 450 pleadings before U.S. judges, with no end in sight. Hilary is the daughter of Jean Elizabeth Morgan, the Washington plastic surgeon who has ' ; AP Laserphoto Dr. Elizabeth Morgan reads to her daughter, before the child was hidden from her father. Hilary, in 1986 ure. Her sympathizers included the Congress and President Bush, who signed the legislation which freed her last September from municipal Judge Herbert Dixon's indeterminate sentence for contempt. Foretich, 45, a dental surgeon in suburban Falls Church, Va., never yielded, meanwhile, in his search for Hilary. He made several trips to Great Britain, where, just days ago, a BBC talk-shoproducer, Di Burgess, was forced under court order obtained by Foretich's attorneys to reveal what she had learned in the wake of filming a documentary on the case. And that, in short, was that the child, under the name Ellen Morgan, had attended a girl's prep school in Plymouth, England, school year, while in the 1987-8- 8 living with her grandparents. Within days, Foretich's investigapersistently charged her Eric Foretich, with sexually tors tracked the older couple, William and Antonia Morgan, to their abusing the child. Having failed to current home in New Zealand, at to the those allegations support Christchurch, about 190 miles southsent of she satisfaction any cort, west of the capital city of WellingHilary into hiding and spent 759 ton. It had long been speculated accord in rather than days jail Foretich his legal visitation rights, that Elizabeth Morgan had entrust- Bush says Kohl talks of great interest - PresiTHURMONT, Md. (AP) dent Bush held talks Saturday with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl that he said merit "keen interest" in a world watching the rapid movement to reunify Germany. Kohl flew in to spend the weekend with Bush at the president's snow-swe- retreat at Camp David pt and discuss a common strategy toward reunification. In apparent furtherance of a unified posture among the allied nations. Bush said he telephoned Bri- tish Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney on Saturday morning before Kohl's arrival. He told reporters he also would be calling French President Francois Mitterrand and other leaders. "I view this as a very important Bush said as he walked out to meet Kohl, who arrived by helicopter from Washington-Dulles International Airport in Virginia. "There's a lot of keen interest, not just in Europe but around the world on these discussions we're going to have." Bush declined to answer reporters' questions about the substance of the forthcoming talks, noting he and Kohl were to hold a news conference on Sunday morning before Kohl's return to Germany. Bush, bundled up against the icy morning air in a leather flier's jacket and gloves, greeted Kohl and his wife at the landing pad with a hearty, "Welcome, welcome." discussion," "Wunderbar (wonderful)," re- plied Kohl, who was dressed in a business suit with no coat. "In this time of dramatic change, ties are of essenKohl said through a translator. Bush hustled the West German into a golf cart to drive to the Camp David living quarters, while Barbara Bush took the wheel of a second cart and chauffeured Mrs. Hannelore Kohl. The two leaders were discussing "the full range of issues related to changes in Eastern Europe," according to White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater. They have spoken frequently by telephone as developments in Europe continue to somersault forward. Coming at this volatile juncture, their talks at Camp David were seen as critical in making sure the two allies are together, a German official said. German-America- n tial significance," Glass prompts pizza topping recall - A HutchWASHINGTON (AP) inson, Kan., company has issued a nationwide recall of approximately 106,000 pounds of frozen pork pizza topping because it may contain light bulb fragments, the Agriculture Department caid Friday. The product was made by Dosko-c- il Sausage Co. and was sold exclusively to food service facilities, including restaurants and car-ryout- s, the department said. It is not available in packages sold di rectly to consumers. tablishment Products include "Leprino Foods Pizza Topping Mix" with the code NOV13891131, and "Pizzano Cooked Italian Style Pizza Topping" with a of NOV13891548 or code NOV20891548. Lester M. Crawford, administrator of the department's Food Safety and Inspection Service said both products were shipped in cartons d bags. The es containing five-poun- number 623 was stamped on the cartons and bags. Crawford said distributors and food service operators who have any of the suspected products should return them to suppliers. The company began the recall after receiving four complaints, one on Jan. 15 and three on Feb. 13, about broken glass in pizza topping, Crawford said. There have been no reports of contaminated products being consumed. In addition, the Kohl visit was considered an important symbol of close ties between the two governments, three weeks before East Germany holds an election that is to precede reunification talks. Kohl himself faces election in West Germany next Dec. 2, against stiff opposition from the Social Democrats. While Kohl has agreed with Bush that a reunified Germany should remain a member of NATO and NATO troops should remain in West Germany, the Social Democrats contend there will be no need for NATO if the Warsaw Pact continues to diminish in importance. The Soviet Foreign Ministry's body on Saturday added another facet to the issue by ruling out NATO membership for a unified Germany. Membership in NATO for a reunified Germany would lead to an "impermissible violation of the military-strategic balance," the Foreign Ministry Collegium said in a statement issued by the official Tass news agency. ees and 20 children from his Rainbow Learning Center, police said Friday. What we have is not even close a criminal to substantiating charge," said police Capt. Bruce Smith. "All we have are comments troin some children that might be interpreted as inappropriate touching by Mr. Shaver." He did not elaborate on what children told the counselors. On Thursday, prosecutors backed from a report that three of awa the children had gonorrhea of the throat. The state attorney's office said the three originally tested positive for gonorrhea but had come up negative on a second test. Tests of Gunmen kill four in D.C. bar Shaver found no trace of the disease. Shaver was charged with 29 counts of possessing published pornographic material depicting children. Police acting on a tip from a photo lab also found nude snapshots policy-- White House. or to say how long they have been in New Zealand. She said, though, that she had been assured that New Zealand has very strong statutes protecting children, and that the court there will make no decision until Hilary has been evaluated by an expert in child sexual abuse. But she also acknowledged that many nations routinely respect the findings of one another's courts in child custody cases. "I'm not a foreteller of the future," she said. "I would like to think that our courts would offer her what I've been asking. At the moment, if I brought her back today, she would not be protected." For years, each parent has accused the other of making Hilary's life a nightmare. In the U.S. courts, the case is called Civil Action No. D 684-8To the American public, it is the Elizabeth Morgan Story, even as every judge along the way has deemed it unsupported by evidence. Ms. Morgan has claimed there was physical evidence scarring that Foretich sexually abused their daughter. To that, Foretich countered in court that the scars were the consequence of injuries caused bv Ms. Morgan herself to stage photographic evidence to bolster n her claims. A Virginia judge missed the mother's suit. dis-pla- SLEEP BETTER AND LIVE A HEALTHIER LIFE AWAKE FRESH VUTHOIT THAT MORNING BACKACHE ASTHMA AND HIATAL HERNIA PATIENTS FLEX A BED (JIVES YOU THE REST POSTl'RE THAT IN MINl'TES. REFRESHES RELIEVE THOSE SWOLLEN LEGS AND FEET Comfort Push-Butto- n ... a new way to fight aches and pains! It adjusts automatically! T 15 YhAR WARRANTY HONFS SAVINGS DEI I VERY SERVICE SOI D ONLY BY LOC AL EXCLUSIVE DEALERS FLEX-- BED You ow e it lo yourself to come in or call for prices todav. 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The uunmen, apparently hunting fs,r Walker, entered the tavern a m., police sail. They around said the other victims wen fatalh wounded when the assailants :;pl'aed tile loom before fleeing. The tavt i n. John's PI.h e. is located in Northwest Washington about a inile and a half from I ht of Their role discovered, the elder Morgans obtained an order from a New Zealand Family Court on Friday which temporarily entitles them to retain custody of Hilary, according to Roger Carson, detective chief inspector in Christchurch. He said a further hearing is scheduled this week. "I ... found my daughter," Foretich said early Saturday before leaving for New Zealand. "I'm elated." But neither he nor Ms. Morgan would predict what legal fates await them or Hilary. "I don't have any illusions that this is going to be easy," Foretich said. Ms. Morgan, meanwhile, seemed almost relieved that her three-yea- r secret was out. While declining to reveal whether she had had any contact with Hilary since her release from jail, she said: "I can tell you I talked to her at length today. And we had a heavenly conversation." Ms. Morgan and her new husband, U.S. Appeals Judge Paul Michel, spent several hours Saturday with her attorney, Stephen Sachs. Their first objective: to convince Dixon, the Superior Court judge who jailed her, to return her passport, without which she cannot legally travel to New Zealand. They to argue for that on Monday. making Despite photos, no child abuse suspected FORT LAUDERDALE, Ha. (AP) Police say they found no evicase dence to support a child-abus- e center owner against a day-car- e who kept nude pictures of some of the childen placed in his care. In the four weeks since John .Shaver's arrest on child pornography charges, counselors and investigators interviewed former employ- Ms. stat- 6 ALL SALES FINAL! j |