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...land to which Lydia Oluloro has been ordered to return, little girls are mutilated. It doesn't matter whether they are rich or poor, educated or illiterate. It can happen in their infancy or in their teens. The age varies among ethnic groups, as does the degree of pain. In some African countries, it is only a piece of the clitoris that is cut off. In others, the labia minora are sliced away. Natural protuberances are viewed as ugly, the unchaste accoutrements of prostitutes. Elsewhere, the entire outer genitalia are removed and the two sides of the vulva sutured together...
...LYDIA COLON'S MOST PRESSING POLITIcal concern is garbage. A 5-ft. heap of it, piled outside an abandoned row house next door to her home in North Philadelphia, has broken through her chain-link fence. "I would vote 100 times, as long as they come and clean it up," says Colon, a 54-year-old native of Puerto Rico. That may be necessary, since she got no results from the two times she voted in last fall's election...
Hamer said she and fellow organizer Lydia Eccles decided to take legal action in March when they first heard of the MBTA's plans...
...keep Black people from applying to Harvard and raising the level of the "less-than-stellar" achievement of "Blacks and Latinos" at Harvard. I further suggest that he go research the Civil Rights movement and re-evaluate his understanding of what he perceives as the "worst form of condescension." Lydia Z. Dyett...
...Lydia H. Loayza, who lives in a two-bedroom apartment at Peabody Terrace with her husband and children, said she was impressed with the maintenance for the rooms...