Word: equalizers
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...recorded times, and that possibly, just possibly, the human being is not as noble and as selfless as our hand-wringing liberals have apparently assumed, I will tend to place more faith in those who have managed to survive longer in this reality of ours, all other things being equal. ROBERT A. MARTIN Culver City, Calif...
Political Rationale. Tom Hayden, one of the founders of the Students for a Democratic Society, likes to tell sympathizers that "fear of violence must be overcome. It is part of change. Our violence over the last ten years is equal to striking a match, compared to one bomb from a B-52." But if some radicals are overcoming their reticence to blow things up, other Americans are growing both fearful and impatient with the new Bakuninism that is detonating across the country...
...nation's capital, 1,000 women marched down Connecticut Avenue behind a "We Demand Equality" banner. Members of the organized Federally Employed Women, mindful of the law against striking Government workers, assembled only at lunch, though some participated in a teach-in at the Old Senate Office Building later in the day, and opened lobbying efforts for the equal rights for women amendment, which is to be considered by the Senate. Los Angeles liberationists were confined to the sidewalk during their march, which drew only 500. Seven women dressed in suffragette costumes stood a "silent vigil" for women...
...already becoming ordained ministers; radical nuns are carrying out liturgical functions that were once the exclusive property of priests; Jewish women are rewriting prayers-particularly those that Orthodox Jews recite every morning thanking God they are not female. In the future, the church will become an area of equal participation by women. This means, of course, that organized religion will have to give up one of its great historical weapons: sexual repression. In most structured faiths, from Hinduism through Roman Catholicism, the status of women went down as the position of priests ascended. Male clergy implied, if they...
...others, notably the Rand Corp.'s Gerald C. Hickey, who has long studied South Viet Nam's social structure, fears that the frantic crush of some 2,000,000 war refugees and at least an equal number of peasants into the cities may create unmanageable problems. South Viet Nam's public services are unable to cope with the strain. In all major cities, the sewage systems, garbage collection, telephones and electrical facilities are overtaxed to the point of collapse. Saigon's bankrupt bus system stopped operating last year. Danang lacks sewers and garbage disposal; its water...