Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will undoubtedly be a lively debate. Phyllis Schlafly, leader of the fight against ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, has declared that "America is entitled to better protection than women's physical strength can give us." The Pentagon responds that it will take no action that weakens the nation's defenses, and General David C. Jones, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is quick to say: "I don't see women in a foxhole in combat right now." There are other unofficial limitations too. Says Jones: "I don't foresee a woman ending...
...mobilized during World War II were women. They served as airplane mechanics, pilots ferrying bombers, parachute riggers and gunnery instructors, as well as in the more "traditional" roles of nursing and administration. In 1948, however, the Women's Armed Forces Integration Act limited women to 2% of the nation's total military strength and barred them from rising higher than the rank of lieutenant colonel...
Part of the growth since these two ceilings were removed has been caused by the nation's changing attitude toward women's roles. But demographics play a further part. Because of the sharp drop in the U.S. birth rate in the 1960s, the number of 18-year-old males will peak at 2.1 million next year, fall to 2 million in 1983 and hit its projected nadir of 1.7 million in 1988. These projections threaten the military with a shortage of qualified men. The armed services will have to offer increasingly costly incentives to attract educated and motivated...
...Even now, it is easier to recruit educated and capable women than similarly qualified men. Studies show, for example, that females like the military's work environment, the security and the opportunity to develop skills, as well as the excitement and the chance to serve the nation. Explains Bambi Hunter, 23, a sergeant at Travis Air Force Base: "I wanted to get away from my small home town and didn't want to go to college." For Lance Corporal Genest, joining the Marines has been a means of "avoiding growing up, getting married, having kids and living down...
Karol Wojtyla. The first Pope from Eastern Europe. The first from Poland, a nation whose fervor for Roman Catholicism has been unsurpassed for a millennium. The first non-Italian elected since 1522 and thus, in a real sense, the first international Pope to lead a global church. And, in the wake of his frail predecessor, the youngest Pope chosen since 1846. The last under-60 Pope, Pius IX, reigned for 32 years. At age 58, Wojtyla is robust and muscular (he was described in the national daily The Australian as "a man built like a rugby front-row forward...