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According to the story, Tripp says she betrayed Monica Lewinsky to save her from being abused by President Clinton.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan urges U.N. members to reach a consensus that the United Nations should intervene anywhere human rights are being abused, regardless of territorial boundaries.
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None of the day's coverage of the Willey letters pays the slightest heed to the well-known phenomenon of even physically abused women having trouble expressing their animosity towards their abusers or physically separating from them.
Individuals helped by Legal Aid include: a young mother and her children being abused by a violent spouse, a severely disabled child in need of medical care, a young woman who needed more time in vocational training to escape welfare, and a woman suffering from dementia in a nursing home whose husband was trying to strip her of her financial assets.