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...discrimination applies to the Jaycees, a national organization of 270,000 young business and community leaders in 7,000 chapters. The Minneapolis and St. Paul chapters of the Jaycees began admitting women in 1974 and '75. The national organization, steadfast in its men-only policy, threatened to cancel their charters. The Minnesota chapters fought back, citing the state's human rights act, which prohibits discrimination based on race or sex in public business facilities. The Jaycees argued in the Supreme Court that as a private fraternal group it was beyond the scope of discrimination laws, since such laws...
Seeing that he was outnumbered, Burt looked for a way to give the State Department option what he called "a little sex appeal." He suggested proposing to the Soviets a straight swap: the U.S. would cancel its program to develop the MX if the Soviets would dismantle all 308 of their SS-18 heavies...
...work, Blum enlisted the aid of her friend Jay Weinberg, 66, a former cancer patient and owner of an Avis car-rental franchise. Unfortunately, corporate sponsors were initially slow to sign up. The turning point came in January 1983, when David Mahoney, chairman of Norton Simon, was forced to cancel a corporate flight that was to carry a cancer patient to the West Coast. As a consolation, Mahoney wrote a letter to 1,500 leading American companies, urging them to help CAN. In response, 100 firms signed up. Today more than 270 firms participate in CAN, including American Express...
...rates on vessels using the gulf, this time more than doubling the fee (from 3% to 7.5% of value) for ships sailing to Kharg Island. In Geneva, Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, declared: "What we are afraid of is that Lloyd's might cancel insurance for navigation in the gulf, and this would be equal to closing the Strait of Hormuz." Lloyd's denied the likelihood of such a cancellation. In any event, the world, and particularly the U.S., is nowhere near as dependent on gulf oil as it was ten or even...
Although few people believed Duarte's demurral, even liberal Democrats conceded that CIA funding of the Christian Democrats was probably necessary to cancel out the money being poured into ARENA coffers by right-wing oligarchs in El Salvador and in exile in Florida. It is not unusual for governments to back their favorite candidates in other countries: West European parties in power often send funds to sister groups abroad. Nonetheless, the recent revelations unsettled quite a few members of Congress, who grumbled that the CIA had once again neglected to keep Congress fully informed of its activities...