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...career of Robert Frederick Drinan, who was dean of the Boston College Law School in 1970 when he ran for the House because of his revulsion against the Viet Nam War. He served with single-minded devotion to liberal causes. He was a leader of the successful battle to abolish the House Internal Security Committee (formerly the Un-American Activities Committee). He advocated strong support for Israel, and he was the first Congressman to introduce a resolution to impeach Richard Nixon. The citation from his 1977 honorary doctorate from Villanova University, which hangs on his office wall, reads, now with...
...Seminar in Khartoum in February 1979 on "Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children," delegates mostly from Health Departments of ten African and Middle Eastern countries participated. They formulated four recommendations to abolish all forms of female genital mutilation, and to publicize the damage done by these operations all over Africa as well as to initiate worldwide educational campaigns against the practice. The WHO also urged international cooperation. In light of these recommendations, it is a great disservice by professors at Harvard University, and others, to attempt to suppress the facts...
...next year a new marriage law forbade childhood engagements. The 1971 Family Law included further reforms, although it did not abolish polygamy. Nevertheless, we can be proud of having abolished loneliness among women--in 1973 a writer could not find a single unmarried woman living in an apartment on her own without her family. It is true that women in the towns still generally cover their face with modesty. On the other hand, fully 2 per cent of Afghan women are now literate. Here and There explains why a higher figure would not be appropriate for Afghan society...
Carter's current move is little better than cosmetic. His budget request would fund only six more biologists for the endangered species listing staff in the Interior Department, a far cry from that department's needs. Carter should press for legislation that would abolish the review committee, and he should veto any ad hoc attempts to pass exceptions to the decisions taken by those charged with protecting the endangered species of this country...
...after voters had resoundingly repudiated her 21-month "emergency" dictatorship. When the last of the 196 million votes in national elections were counted, her party had won 351 of the 525 contested seats in the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament). With a two-thirds majority, she can legally abolish the constitutional safeguards set up to prevent a recurrence of her 1975-77 oppressive rule...