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Organized by a group called Women Against Pornography, this unlikely female sortie is only one tactic in a new feminist cause: an all-out war against pornography. The rationale is that pornography is a significant factor in the nation's disturbing rate of sexual violence against women and children. One of the movement's organizers and a leader of the weekly Manhattan tours is Susan Brownmiller, author of Against Our Will, which contends that rape is a social and political instrument to oppress women. Adds Psychologist Phyllis Chesler: "For years women have been reluctant to speak out against...
...urbane world of Big Business and both favor liberal social policies. When they breakfasted together, as they did almost every Tuesday, they found that they disagreed more about what to eat than about the kind of economic policy the nation should pursue. Like Blumenthal, Miller is committed to an all-out fight against inflation, large government and budget deficits. The new Secretary also believes in helping business and has urged tax breaks to stimulate corporate investment...
Battle lines on SALT II were drawn months ago, but the all-out fight was delayed until Monday, when Carter and Brezhnev signed the treaty on a silk-topped table. Then the two men stood up and quite unexpectedly embraced. In contrast to the stiff formality of the summit talks, the moment was a warm and moving exchange between the failing Soviet leader, 72, and the vigorous American President...
...would be, the guerrillas vowed, their "final offensive," an all-out push that would topple Nicaragua's military strongman, President General Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Debayle. Bands of well-armed insurgents of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) slipped across the border from Honduras and Costa Rica. The rebels first struck in half a dozen cities in the interior, bottling up government garrisons with torrents of bullets from Belgian-made automatic rifles. Then they moved into the capital of Managua, which had been paralyzed by a general strike. While Somoza's air force wheeled overhead, raining down barrages...
...high. If the recession is mild, White House aides insist that they will not follow the usual practice of trying to expand the economy in a bid for votes. Notes Democrat Heller: "The political advantage now seems to lie more in the successful assault on inflation than it does in all-out war on unemployment...