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...Phyllis Schlafly, who may run against Illinois Senator Charles Percy in the Republican primary next year. "The Equal Rights proponents," she charged, "want to reconstruct us into a gender-free society, so there's no difference between men and women. I don't think babies need two sex-neutral parents. I think they need a father and a mother...
...subject to intense wrangling. At week's end Foreign Minister Dayan flew to West Germany for a scheduled round of talks with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's government. Across the Middle East, rumors rebounded that he might meet there with Egyptian diplomats-or, possibly, even go later to neutral Rumania for a conference with his Cairo counterpart, acting Foreign Minister Butros Ghali...
...there something potentially sinister about television's intrusion into this striking moment of history? Did TV in fact serve history well in the episode? Or was TV, as the networks defensively insist, merely a neutral professional bouncing its images off a satellite with no intention-or effect-beyond good journalism? Oddly enough, the answer to all three questions is probably...
Precedents exist for such limitations on sovereignty. In 1955 Austria agreed to remain neutral and to limit the strength of its military in order to gain independence from the occupying powers (U.S., Britain, France and the Soviet Union). Japan's constitution allows only for self-defense forces that cannot be used in aggressive acts...
...display pronounced male sexual development. Wachtel discovered why. Analyzing the blood of these individuals, he found that their chromosomes apparently contained a hidden male factor-a variant of the same signal found in normal males. In the first few weeks after conception, when the embryo is still sexually neutral, the signal causes the development of testes, a source of male hormones. In the case of the XX males, however, the male factor, apparently consisting of a bit of genetic material-possibly no more than a single gene-is somehow attached to a chromosome other than the usual Y. The proof...