Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nation Reporter-Researcher Barbara Dolan months ago had decided to attend the conference -on her own-as an observer. Says Dolan, a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at Columbia, and a single parent with four children: "It was the major women's event of the century. Nothing would have kept me from attending...
...life of me figure out how the American people are to have any effective voice in their own foreign policy if the essential information about the behavior of the American Government can be kept from them by the invocation of national security or, alternatively, executive privilege. Whatever the merits of our involvement in Chile, it is clear that the American people were entirely excluded from any voice in making the decision, and as I read the Helms affair, it was the intent of Richard Nixon to prevent the Congress or the people from ever finding out the true nature...
...could accuse the participants of being any less adroit, canny or Machiavellian than men. Reports TIME Senior Correspondent Ruth Mehrtens Galvin: "What had not been clear was whether women who were eager to improve their lot, but had never been involved in the political process before, could be kept in order long enough even to discuss, let alone vote, on all these issues. Order was achieved by the kind of discipline any male politician would give his eyeteeth to attain...
Oblivious to the reprimands from the other side of Houston, the Women's Conference kept up its brisk pace. Only on the last day did the women begin to show understandable signs of fatigue and short temper. The final resolution proposed creating a Cabinet-level department to deal with women's issues. Some delegates objected that the position would "ghettoize" feminist concerns in one department and take the pressure off other areas of Government. The resolution was the first and the last to be disapproved. With that, the meeting adjourned in boisterous disarray...
...England Patriots beat the point spread and kept their slim hopes for a playoff berth alive with a 16-10 win over the defensively awesome Atlanta Falcons in Atlanta yesterday...