Daughters

A Cuban-born Miami girl whose father fought for three years to come to Florida and give her one of his kidneys underwent life-saving transplant surgery, doctors said. Initial results were encouraging, Dr. Joshua Miller told a news conference at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital. Doctors gave Greta Blanco, 12, one of her father Alberto's kidneys and rebuilt her bladder in a rare and complex operation.

For months, and as recently as two months ago, Donna Goins tried to get answers about her father's long list of ailments, physical and mental. She often accompanied him on his regular visits to the Veterans Affairs' sprawling health care facility here, where she said he was being treated for everything from liver and kidney disease to schizophrenia.

Hilda Kalir grew up in Germany and left in 1939, not long after Kristallnacht, "the night of broken glass" that marked the beginning of Adolf Hitler's reign of terror against the Jews. Like scores of Jewish women around her, Kalir, 83, missed out on raising a family and growing old with her husband in her hometown of Hamborn on the Rhine River. Within minutes of the start of World War II, she and her husband fled to Jerusalem, where she later gave birth to their only child.

Services will be Wednesday for Jennifer Dunlap, the 21-year-old daughter of Brea City Councilman Burnie Dunlap, who apparently died in her sleep Friday at her La Habra apartment. The cause of her death has yet to be determined, Deputy Coroner Ted Sullivan said. He said it will take 12 to 16 weeks for toxicological tests to be completed. Dunlap was under medical treatment for severe back pain at the time of her death, Brea City Council secretary Susan Robbins said.

Kathleen Riordan, the daughter of Mayor Richard Riordan, was confirmed by the City Council on Tuesday for an appointment to the city Animal Regulation Commission. Mayor Riordan appointed his daughter to the panel, citing her years of involvement with animal issues. "She loves animals, and has an incredible passion for the care and treatment of animals," the mayor said, noting that she is vice president of a San Fernando Valley rescue group called New Leash on Life.

The daughter of former Paraguayan President Raul Cubas Grau was found dead, months after she was abducted by heavily armed gunmen. Atty. Gen. Oscar Latorre said the body of Cecilia Cubas, 32, had been unearthed from a tunnel behind a house on the outskirts of Asuncion and identified through dental records. She was seized Sept. 21 near the family home. The former president repeatedly made emotional public appeals for his daughter's release and once said he had paid an $800,000 ransom.

A woman who shot her two daughters in an abandoned quarry and then led police to the bodies pleaded guilty to murder in Stevenson in a deal with prosecutors that is to send her to prison for 63 years. Charlene Dorcy, 39, killed the girls, 2 and 4, with a rifle last June in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. Dorcy had stopped taking medication for paranoid schizophrenia in favor of herbal remedies because of concern about side effects, her husband said.

For 13 hours after they watched an Orange County sheriff's deputy fatally shoot their father, the traumatized daughters of Marine Sgt. Manuel Loggins were held for questioning and not allowed to join their mother, according to the lawyer representing the Loggins family. "They just basically incarcerated them," attorney Brian T. Dunn said Wednesday, one month after the shooting in a darkened parking lot at San Clemente High School. The accusation is contained in a claim Dunn said he would file Wednesday with the county, giving notice that the Loggins family plans to file a wrongful death suit in Superior Court against the Sheriff's Department and the deputy.

I was moved to tears by "Daddies' Girls" (Feb. 13). What could have been a mushy, sentimental article was written in a straightforward manner--for me, echoing the simplicity of the concept itself--about fathers and daughters spending time together. I called my father immediately. He said he would have taken me [to the dance described in the story] if they had it when I was a kid. Instead, he took me to my first concert (Barry Manilow), my first sports game (Dodgers versus Expos) and my first trip to New York (where we saw two plays a day, for a week)

Emphasizing that jobs of the future will increasingly be technology-related, the sponsors of the annual Take Our Daughters to Work Day program are expanding into cyberspace. The Ms. Foundation for Women, which started the event in 1993 to bolster self-confidence for adolescent girls, has teamed up with America Online for this year's day, set for Thursday. "We like to say the Ms.