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...numbers begin to blur, and the death tolls lose their human meaning. The blood will seem much redder if we look at the reports of actual atrocities committed by the El Salvadorean government and documented by a Congressional fact-finding mission. Rep. Gerry Studds (D-Ma.), Rep. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), and Rep. Robert Edgar (D-Pa.), obtained hundreds of first hand accounts of "murder, torture, rape, and the burning of villages and crops" by Government Security Forces. According to the United Press International...
...Oval Office and when 51 women, more than in any other year, are running for Congress, the struggle for the Equal Rights Amendment and the entire women's movement is in a state of disarray. While such women as Senate hopeful Elizabeth Holtzman of New York and Rep. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland are being hailed as the core of a "new girl network," feminist leaders are squabbling over methods to insure that three more states will pass the ERA before the June 30, 1982 deadline...
...that it could nominate someone other than Carter or Senator Edward Kennedy. The organizers of the meeting included Thomas Downey of New York, a Carter supporter, and Toby Moffett of Connecticut, a Kennedy backer. Among those who attended were Don Edwards of California, Patricia Schroeder of Colorado, Barbara Mikulski of Maryland and three leading black Representatives: Shirley Chisholm of New York, John Conyers of Michigan and Ronald Dellums of California...
...there were some bright spots. Women increased their total of seats in state legislatures from 703 to 761 and doubled their numbers in lieutenant governorships to six. In Maryland, women won half of the state's eight seats in Congress: Republican Marjorie Holt and Democrats Gladys Spellman and Barbara Mikulski were reelected, while Democrat Beverly Byron won the seat vacated by the death of her husband. Other notable women candidates last week included...
...such an uncompromising group as the antiabortionists. Their attack can be so personal that New Jersey Congressman Andy Maguire was actually chased through his office building by lobbyists screaming "Killer! Killer!" He nevertheless maintained his pro-abortion stand. It takes courage for a Congresswoman like Maryland's Barbara Mikulski, whose Baltimore area is heavily Catholic, to fight the right-to-lifers as resolutely as she has. "I am a professionally trained social worker," she explains. "I know what the coat-hanger abortion is all about...