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...extremist opposition. The pro-family people are put off by some feminists who dismiss abortions as mere bodily functions. They are equally unsettled by the pervasive bias of the women's movement toward Big Government. Pro-family forces would rather rely on the private sector and their own initiative???that would furnish more positive proof that women have finally arrived in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: What Next for US. Women | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...will be pulled back no farther than Okinawa, Nixon would surely evoke deafening protest in the U.S. in the highly unlikely event that serious military reversals made it necessary to send some of the troops back. The greater danger, however, is that the enemy will simply ignore Nixon's initiative???on the assumption that continued popular op position to the war will eventually force Nixon to concede the Communists a victory at the bargaining table that they have not won on the battlefield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE PROSPECTS FOR DISENGAGEMENT | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

...British took the initiative???they pointed the way !" cried beak-nosed French Finance Minister Louis Germain-Martin in Paris last week. He was speaking of the bold lead taken by beak-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain when he offered to holders of $7,500,000,000 worth of 5% British War Loan Bonds the alternative of asking repayment of their money in paper pounds or accepting new bonds paying only 3½% (TIME, Aug. 15). This example. M. Germain-Martin handsomely declared, gave him courage to offer holders of $3,332,000,000 worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Conversion | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

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