Word: problems
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...meantime, the government, and specifically the Department of Justice, has another problem to worry about: the more than 250,000 19- and 20-year olds who are officially guilty of a felony that boasts a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Dean St. Dennis, a Justice Department spokesman, refuses to speculate as to how his men might round up so many loose mavericks, let alone what they would do with all of the young offenders if the law ever caught up with them. "We certainly have not developed any sort of big program...
...Basically, it's a supply and demand problem," Richard E. Collins, director of housing at B.C., said yesterday...
...those gringo feminists, are you?" the woman sitting at the AMNLAE office's reception desk asked suspiciously. Reyes hurried to explain her comrade's scorn. "Although we feel solidarity with European and North American feminists because machismo is a universal problem, we do not agree with their individualistic, capitalistic methods. They are separatists who do not work cooperatively with men as we do. I also question their sincerity-- we appreciate the telegrams of support sent to us after the revolution. But why didn't they send us money and typewriters? You can't build a movement on telexes...
...holding demonstrations protesting Somoza's violation of human rights and torture of male comandantes. But as these women became more politicized by the war around them--suffering the deaths of loved ones, and rape and persecution by Somocists--their actions grew bolder. The Women's Association Confronting the National Problem (AMPRONAC), formed by a broad-based group of women in September 1977, wrote a manifesto demanding not only an end to Somoza's reign, but also the "defense of Nicaraguan women's rights in all sectors--economic, social, and political...
...problem, de Maria says, is machismo left over from the old days. "I believe you call them 'male chauvinist pigs'; we just says they're behaving like 'counterrevolutionaries.' No matter how much the FSLN says men and women are equals, many men find it hard to work under women in the organization--even if they fought under them...