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...where Marchais has accused Italy's Communist deputies of lining up with "reactionaries" against him. That thrust was aimed at Berlinguer's determined recent campaign to seek ties with the Socialist and other moderate parties of Europe. Berlinguer has held summit-like meetings with French Socialist Leader François Mitterrand and with Willy Brandt, chairman of the West German Social Democratic Party. Says Italian Communist Policymaker Sergio Segre, a deputy at Strasbourg: "We sometimes find ourselves voting on the same side as the Christian Democrats of West Germany or even the Conservatives of Britain...
...Genital/Sexual Mutilation of Females," the research work which I prepared based on six years of research in Africa and around the world, and which is the only standard research work on the subject. But, quite clearly, the male-dominated, academic community at Harvard does not wish to be informed. Fran P. Hosken
Indeed, the Alexander Kielland appeared to be a marvel of modern marine engineering. Built in 1976 by the Compagnie Française d'Entreprises Métalliques, based in Paris, the pentagonal 10,105-ton platform was leased and operated by Phillips Petroleum Co., the major contractor for oil and natural gas prospecting in the rich Edda field. For the rotating crews that lived there for two weeks at a time, it was intended to be a floating city-a sort of workingman's Titanic. And like the Titanic, the Alexander Kielland was theoretically invulnerable. Says Jakob...
George Sand never made it. Neither did Colette nor Madame de Staĕl. For ever since the elite 40-member Académie Française was established by Cardinal Richelieu in 1634 to uphold France's literary standards, it has barred its doors to women. But now the "Immortals" have voted to breach France's macho line by admitting Novelist Marguerite Yourcenar, 76, author of Hadrian's Memoirs and acclaimed translator of Henry James and Virginia Woolf. Though Yourcenar holds U.S. as well as French citizenships and has lived in Maine for 30 years, what...
Only a concerted international effort will reduce the prevalence of genital mutilation of females throughout Africa, Fran P. Hosken, editor of the Women's International Network News, told a small crowd at the Science Center yesterday...