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...country's Communist rulers can be proud of some achievements in the defeated South. They created jobs for a million people who were left unemployed at the end of the war. Thousands of prostitutes and drug addicts have been reformed. The public school enrollment has doubled. Finally, full citizenship has been restored to 400,000 of the soldiers who were once loyal to Nguyen Van Thieu...
...TIME of increasing discussion of women's and Third World people's oppression, there still remains enormous ignorance about the second-class citizenship of gay and lesbian people. This segment of the population, which includes members of every race, religion, and social class, is subject to legal restrictions on employment in 50 states, and on sexual activity in 29. Unwritten but culturally approved discrimination, contempt, and fear are barriers which gays and lesbians, whether open or closeted, must encounter every day. For the numerous gay students at Harvard and Radcliffe, these obstacles help to create a hostile environment for open...
...that Americans gorge their food with "voracious rapidity"; they swill, guzzle, spit and pick their teeth with pocket knives. In Cincinnati, she related, cows are nonchalantly milked at the house door (a predecessor, no doubt, of the great American custom of home delivery), and pigs enjoy such citizenship that they wander at will, rooting in the street garbage and nuzzling pedestrians with their moist snouts. Americans seldom declined to provide a bounteous native rubery for the satirist to exercise his superciliousness upon: according to Henry Adams, Ulysses S. Grant once told a young woman in all seriousness that Venice would...
During a panel discussion entitled "Women in War" Chayes said, "Women will have the privilege of serving their country, sharing in the hardships involved, and carrying the obligations of full citizenship...
Cambodia's exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk, 57, has a palace in North Korea's capital, Pyongyang, a residence in Peking and now honorary citizenship in the Maryland town of New Carrollton (pop. 14,000). It was conferred during Sihanouk's visit to greet Cambodian refugees living there and pray with them in a service presided over by saffron-robed monks who later feted their former ruler with cakes and tea. The Prince, who is in the U.S. to generate support for a neutral Cambodia, is also visiting refugee groups to see how they fare in a faraway...