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...Jordan of women's international basketball. No other U.S. woman has represented her country on as many national teams (18), or scored as many points (1,760), or taken home so rich a trove of medals during her career (17, including 13 gold). Such records led Edwards' hometown of Cairo, Ga., to name a street in her honor--not far from the one that celebrates Jackie Robinson, Cairo's other local hero...
...year-old tradition that restricted the award to male students. The administrators of the Rhodes program ignore the nominations. 7 - War breaks out in the Middle East as tank battles raged along the Suez Canal and the Golan Heights. Israeli jets bombed the Syrian capital of Damascus and struck Cairo as well. 10 - Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigns, pleading no contest to income tax evasion. Three days later, Nixon nominated House Minority Leader Gerald Ford to replace Agnew. 10 - Nissan Motor Company of Japan donates $1 million for the construction of a new building near the Yenching Library...
Week One--60 European and African leaders congregated in Cairo, Egypt, for a historic summit to discuss the two continents' troubled past relationships, with the hope of building new links between the world's poorest countries and some of the world's richest...
...Tamil Nadu finally started dropping its by-the-numbers policy, setting an example that was later adopted by India as a whole. The change paralleled the consensus reached at the U.N.'s 1994 population conference in Cairo, which rejected target-based birth control in favor of giving women better health care and more family-planning choices...
Long before the Cairo conference, Nirmala complained about the birth-control numbers game, but superiors told her she would be "suspended" if she challenged policy. Only in 1992 did she get a real hearing, when S. Ramasundaram took over Tamil Nadu's family-welfare program. Nirmala told him that birth-control targets made mothers distrust nurses and resist the policy. Later, she said nurses would forgo the sterilization bonuses if allowed to do their jobs without so much government interference...