Word: conventioneer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Women would have to decide whether to operate as a bloc or within traditional political channels at the convention, Bellamy told the mostly female audience.
"I could answer with one word the role of women at the 1980 Republican convention," she said. "But then we can always look for possibilities," she added. Ruckleshaus termed presidential candidate John B. Anderson Jr. (R. Ill.) "particularly supportive" of women's causes. She cited Anderson's support of the...
At the end of the discussion, Dr. Sally Lunt, chairman of the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus who moderated the talk urged women interested in running for convention slots to get information on the process from their state party committees.
In 1977 this clause cut 99 per cent of all reimbursements (250,000-300,000 annually prior to the cut-off); this year "medically necessary" has been replaced by probable death of the mother. Military women are similarly restricted under the Dornan Amendment; the Young Amendment funds no abortions at...
The creation of this new legal right was almost an act of contrition by states ashamed of their complacency in the face of genocide. The U.N. was declaring dramatically that it must never happen again. And in taking such unprecedented measures it implicitly acknowledged the special place that had to...