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...state legislatures ratified it the first year, eight in 1973, three in 1974. So far this year, only one state-North Dakota -has approved ERA. Nebraska and Tennessee have voted to rescind their earlier approval, though the legal status of their action is dubious. Congress has the authority to disregard such votes and has done so once in the past. Still, both sides in the ERA struggle expect the issue to reach the Supreme Court. The victorious anti-ERA forces in New York and New Jersey are already gearing up for campaigns to revoke ratification. More important, some feminists...
...number of military bases can justify this direct support for a government that shows such blatant disregard for democratic rights. Congress should reject this agreement until the new Spanish government shows through concrete and lasting reforms that it is committed to the democratic rights of its people...
...When Carol Faill returned to school at age 38 and won approval of a Pennsylvania government agency for a stateinsured college loan, she complimented her banker on his enlightened disregard for a husband's co-signature. "Oh," said the banker, "I didn't realize ..." Her husband had to cosign...
Something must be done to make this university administration as well as students aware of the fact that Radcliffe has not been the "Harvard Annex" since the late 1880s. The disregard, disrespect, and offhandedness which anyone living at Radcliffe experiences each day is enough to make any rational individual very irrational very quickly. The prevailing attitude about Radcliffe and its residents may not at first be apparent to the untrained eye or ear, but the tone of it has already become unbearable in the opening weeks of this semester...
...used his position as president of the 29th General Assembly aggressively to support the tactics of the Third World bloc. He wrenched procedural issues in a way that prevented South Africa from taking its seat and limited Israel's participation in the Palestinian debate. Bouteflika's blatant disregard for the tradition of presidential impartiality was one cause of former U.S. Ambassador John Scali's warning last year that a "tyranny of the majority" of underdeveloped, often tiny nations in the U.N. threatened to undermine U.S. support of the organization...