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...Margo G. Haygood '76, a member of a special advisory committee which met last week to assist Donald Fredrickson, the director of NIH, in his final decision on research guidelines, said yesterday that she approves "the basics of the guideline," adding that she was called on "to provide public input...
COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics) was founded on Mother's Day 1973 in San Francisco by ex-hooker and ex-madam Margo St. James, who gathered a group of disenchanted streetwalkers after discovering repeatedly that her background as a prostitute prevented her from finding another job. "The label is what outrages me and has kept me unemployable," St. James says...
...flamboyant, articulate Margo St. James during one of her frequent coast-to-coast speaking and organizing tours. COYOTE's director is optimistic that her idea will catch on throughout the country, although she quickly admits that the East is more "tight-assed" on the issue than the "mellow, laid-back" West Coast. The prostitute community has responded readily to COYOTE's call; "I feel we have a real solidarity going," St. James says. Grinning she told me: "It takes about two minutes to politicize a hooker...
...society, and preserves its morally controversial status. When prostitution becomes an accepted occupation, when hookers are no longer regarded as pariahs but can run their own lives without fear of arrest or exploitation, then the need for COYOTE may fade. But the group has plenty of work ahead; Margo St. James will not need to go job- or john-hunting again for a long, long time...
...Margo de Simon...