People: Sep. 30, 1996

IT TAKES A CONGRESS ...

ELLEN MORGAN, the subject of one of the ugliest and most controversial custody battles ever to pass through American courts, not to mention several books and a movie, may be able to return to the U.S. with her mother under unusual legislation passed in Congress last week. ELIZABETH MORGAN went to prison for two years rather than allow her daughter, then called Hilary Foretich, to visit her father Eric Foretich, who Elizabeth claims molested Ellen. He denies the claim. For the past seven years mother and daughter have been living in New Zealand. The tailor-made legislation...

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