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...House. She wants to end the war and divert that money and funds from the space program to cities. She has been endorsed by the Boston locals of the International Longshoremen's Association as "man enough for us," a phrase that would anger many a Women's Lib militant, but pleases the hard-nosed Mrs. Hicks...
...generalizations apply. In the era of Women's Lib, they are for the most part notably unmilitant. As with their male counterparts, their views are dictated by the constituencies and by their individual beliefs as well as party loyalties. Other than Bella Abzug, who, one of her supporters warned, "will come to Washington and turn this town upside down," they fit most easily into the traditional patterns: liberal, conservative, Republican, Democrat. But that comforting conformity to the System will be reversed, insists Shirley Chisholm. A woman President some day? "Of course," she snaps. "You can't stop...
...most spectacular high jinks of Women's Lib have taken place in The Netherlands. The Dutch fighters, many of them chic and in their 20s, call themselves Dolle Minas, or Mad Minas. The name comes from the appellative that was usually applied to Wilhemina ("Mina") Drucker, a Dutch 19th century suffragette. The Dolle Minas have mirth as well as method in their madness. To attract attention, they burned a corset in front of Mina's statue in Amsterdam. Then they marched through the city and defiantly pinned bright pink ribbons across the portals of men's public...
...other European Women's Lib movements do not equal the élan of the Dutch, they all agree on a list of basic goals. To a woman, they demand liberalization of divorce and abortion laws, more widespread dissemination of information on birth control, more effective enforcement of equal-pay-for-equal-work laws (throughout Europe, men often earn 20% to 30% more than women). But each country has individual problems...
BRITAIN. A British father has the sole authority to decide on the children's religious upbringing and education, which the wife can challenge only in the courts. In case of a divorce, British women often have no right to property acquired during marriage. This spring, Lib ladies picketed the Miss World Contest with signs reading MISUSED, MISCONCEPTION and MISGUIDED. Later they plastered lingerie ads with stickers saying "You earn more as a real whore...