Word: marche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week 65,000 supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment, most of them women, retraced the steps of that historic march. This time the mood was festive: marching to spirited calliope music, the amendment's supporters joyfully waved banners and shouted slogans...
...largest rally ever held for women's rights, and its purpose was to urge Congressmen to extend the March 22, 1979, deadline for ratification of ERA. Without an extension, most supporters fear, the amendment will die, three states short of the 38 needed for ratification. They argue that since the Constitution sets no time limit on the ratification of amendments, the seven-year deadline set by Congress in 1972 for ERA is arbitrary and unfair...
...guilty verdict has been a foregone conclusion since March 1977, when the government newspaper Izvestiya?just before Shcharansky's arrest?accused him of spying for the CIA. According to Shcharansky's brother Leonid, who was admitted to the courtroom, the defendant's first action was to dismiss the lawyer who had been assigned to him by the KGB in place of the attorney he had requested and been denied. Conducting his own defense, Shcharansky made a one-hour opening statement to the presiding judge and two lay assessors who constituted a jury. During the five-day trial, his brother later...
...March and April, during my interrogation, those conducting the case warned me that the position I had taken during the investigation made possible a sentence of 15 years to death. But if I agreed to cooperate with them, I would be freed soon and would be quickly reunited with my wife. Five years ago, I applied to emigrate to Israel. Now, as never before, I am far from my dreams...
...havoc, grotesquely scorched. In all, the fire storm that devastated Los Alfaques had killed 144 by week's end, and left some 75 injured, many critically. Not since a pair of jumbo jets collided and caught fire on a runway on the Spanish Canary Island of Tenerife in March 1977, killing 582, had there been a burn disaster of such proportions...