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...BELLA ABZUG George Bush's sniping at her role in women's confab reminds world she's alive and kicking...
...been held in a more female-friendly place. But where exactly would that be? Saudi Arabia, for example? Imagine the logistic problems that would have arisen in a country where women are not even permitted to drive. Iran can be similarly eliminated, unless you think conference goers like Bella Abzug would happily go about in chadors. Algeria, of course, would be a security nightmare: in the past year there, more than 500 have been killed by armed factions--some for being known feminists, others for merely showing their unveiled face...
Other speakers included the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rep. Chuck Shumer (D-NY), head of the Farm Workers' Union Dolores Huerta, feminist leader Bella Abzug and representatives from several national minority groups. The speakers defined violence broadly, as everything from domestic abuse, rape and antiabortion crimes to economic violence. Economic violence, several speakers said, is the result of governmental policies which disadvantage women. Each made a personal appeal to the crowd to eradicate all these forms of violence...
...show begins right where the last one left off, with the plucky orphan gamboling around a Christmas tree with her adoptive plutocrat. In steams a social-welfare commissioner with a bad attitude, played by Alene Robertson as a cross between Bella Abzug and Shelley Winters at their coarsest. The adoption is invalid, she tells Daddy Warbucks, because he doesn't have a wife. The rest of the show is devoted to marrying him off and extracting him from the tentacles of the adhesive and ambitious commissioner. Along the way father faces financial ruin, daughter runs away and turns hobo...
...Every soldier was part of the liberation," Abzug said. "Part of the tragedy is that the movie was for a good cause. The filmmakers had no malice of forethought, but were simply not careful about cross-checking their information...