Word: generale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women. In 1973, at the age of 28, she won the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that affirmed a woman's right to choose to have an abortion. Since Weddington replaced Midge Costanza last November, Carter has increased the number of women in top Administration spots; former Attorney General Griffin Bell raised female federal judgeships from 6% to 17%. "My purpose is to put women into the mainstream of life," says Weddington, which is precisely where...
...black banner of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.). Even the sounds were different Gone was the stream of anti-Communist propaganda that had once poured from Somoza's radio station. In its place came round-the-clock broadcasts of revolutionary songs and tributes to General Cesar Augusto Sandino, the legendary nationalist guerrilla slain by Somoza's father in 1934. Proclaimed an announcer: "The sons of Sandino are going to build the country that the general dreamed about...
...inspired partly by pique and partly by legitimate reservations. Angered by a superpower deal arranged over their heads, the Israelis complained that unlike the large, combat-ready Emergency Force, which was created by the entire Security Council, the team of observers would be responsible solely to U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim...
...There is nothing to prevent the Secretary-General from asking countries hostile to Israel to contribute troops," complained a senior aide to the Premier. Others grimly recalled 1967, when Secretary-General U Thant at Egypt's request withdrew U.N. forces from the Sinai, only to see hostilities break out almost immediately thereafter. At week's end, much of the sting was removed from the dispute when the State Department suggested the possibility of new four-cornered negotiations between Israel, Egypt...
...restrictions on foreign reporters. New York Times Correspondent Youssef Ibrahim was ordered out of Iran. In early July David Lamb of the Los Angeles Times had also been expelled. No specific grounds were given for Ibrahim's ouster, but Yazdi said it was because of "the general tone of his reporting. American correspondents are not reporting accurately on Iran. We do not say everything is rosy, but by their continually stressing the negative aspects of our revolution, U.S. public opinion has come to believe that everybody is shooting everybody...