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...idea whose time had been a long season coming. Since 1923, a constitutional amendment proposing equal rights for women had languished in Congress, debated seriously only rarely. But last week, with a disparate array of midwives in attendance, the Equal Rights Amendment passed the Senate, 84 to 8, and was sent to the states for ratification. If approved by three-quarters of the states, it will become the 27th Amendment to the Constitution...
...fraudulent practices more quickly. They began mailing letters to customers of suspect firms, telling them how to cancel their sales contracts. They urged the telephone company to cut off service to a firm that put a misleading ad in the Yellow Pages. Eventually, Schrag reports, "we had an impressive array of electronic gadgetry," including a tiny microphone that hooked onto a bra strap. "One hazard of a very young law-enforcement staff," observed Schrag wryly, was that the first time the device was to be used "our investigator forgot to wear...
Beyond VAT, Swedes face an awesome array of levies. The Social Democratic Party, which has held power for 40 years, holds that taxes should aim at demolishing accumulated wealth. Many high-income "tax exiles" have fled abroad to conserve the remains of their fortunes. The sharpest wrench for the middle class and the rich is the "wealth" tax, which requires individuals to list the value of their worldly goods-jewelry, cars, house, securities, bank accounts-and pay an annual 1% levy on any amount above $31,000. Income from investments-dividends on stock, interest on bonds, rent on real estate...
...road to the Democratic National Convention at Miami in July is paved with a record 24 primary elections and a bewildering array of state caucuses, conventions and diverse devices to elicit grass-roots participation. No Democrat has the resources or the stamina to contest in each of the 50 states; picking and choosing where to run-and how hard-is all-important. Here, in brief, are the principal game plans...
Israel ignores her poor. Jewish women are robots. Reform Jews are rubber-stamp leftists. Synagogues are sterile shells. These outspoken, sometimes outrageous statements are not the howls of angry Gentiles or even anti-Semitic Jews. They are the assertions of new voices in a combative array of Jewish magazines and newspapers that are blooming across the U.S. like kibbutzim in the desert. Some 50 publications with a combined press run of 400,000 now heckle Establishment Judaism from California to New York, even in such unlikely places as Norman, Okla., and Albuquerque...