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...encouraging women to work and to resist sexism in personal life, there are few similarities between AMNLAE and the North American women's movement. U.S. feminists are generally middle and upper-class professionals, whereas most AMNLAE members hail from the urban poor. According to Reyes, it is the popular sector women who feel more of a personal debt to the revolution, for they had more to gain from it economically...
...expression of the international outrage that has been directed at Israel for trying, in effect, to change the Israeli occupation of parts of Jerusalem into outright annexation. A bill passed by Israel's parliament, the Knesset, in July declared the whole of Jerusalem-including the eastern sector of the city, which was captured from Jordan in the 1967 war-to be the undivided and "eternal" capital of Israel. In response to the U.N. vote, all but three of the countries with envoys in Jerusalem announced that they would move to Tel Aviv, and by week...
...officeholders or government employees in some capacity. (Only 7% of the general population is employed by government at all levels.) And the figure, some experts point out, does not reflect the number of other delegates who are dependent on Big Government spending, though they may work in the private sector...
...Christians, mainly Arabic-speaking Maronites, who make up about 42% of Lebanon's 3 million population, control the eastern sector of Beirut and some 400 miles of northern hinterland. The Christians in Beirut are themselves divided, along feudal family lines, into two main warring factions-the strongly rightist Phalange, headed by 75-year-old Pierre Gemayel, and the slightly more moderate National Liberal Party of former President Camille Chamoun...
...impressive 35% rise in exports, to $9.2 billion, Brazil suffered an overall trade deficit of $2.7 billion. This year's higher petro prices are pushing its trade deficit more deeply into the red. The deficit is worse because the previous military regime flagrantly neglected the agricultural sector. The unhappy result: despite rich agricultural resources, Brazil last year had to spend $1.8 billion on food imports alone...