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Despite these prospects, some New Yorkers are not prepared for even initial austerities. The teachers' union was threatening a strike last week over city attempts to increase their duties and class size and eliminate some jobs (see EDUCATION). Congressman Herman Badillo and Congresswoman Bella Abzug urged New Yorkers to refuse to pay the new transit fare, raised last week from 35? to 50?. In parts of the city, protesters jumped subway turnstiles. At least in one case, they provoked a bloody confrontation with police...
...major goal of gay activists now is a federal law prohibiting discrimination. Democratic Representative Bella Abzug of New York introduced a bill last March to amend the 1964 Civil Rights Act by adding "affectional or sexual preference" to the proscriptions against discriminating because of race, religion or sex. The bill has 23 co-sponsors but is not given any serious chance of passage during the current Congress...
...Bella Abzug...
...preoccupied the conference all along. Because she felt that such political discussions deflected interest from matters uniquely concerning women, Françoise Giroud, France's Secretary of State for Women's Affairs, termed the conference a "total failure." Other women took a more positive view. Representative Bella Abzug of New York said that while the conference was perhaps "intended as a sop, we did talk about issues, and I believe deeply that we accomplished something." She was so inspired, in fact, that she and two other Congresswomen are sponsoring legislation for a follow-up national conference on women...
...society, "he would have given Moses ten suggestions instead of ten command ments." Ably abetted by the antic direction of Alan Arkin, Rubbers is a zany caricature of mandated imbecility. As Brooklyn's gift to liberated womanhood, Laura Esterman is roguishly supple in alternating the abrasiveness of Bella Abzug with the dimpled wiles...