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...genital mutilation is being practiced in the U.S. by immigrants from Africa and the Middle East. Though actual instances are rare, a bill to ban the procedure was introduced in the New York State legislature in early March. It mirrors efforts on the national level by Colorado Representative Pat Schroeder to outlaw such mutilation. Says she: "It's terribly important to do so if we're going to preach on this issue in the international community." Yet even as American feminists inveigh against the practice, African professional women in the U.S. decry these protests as arrogant and misguided...
...yearly Uniform Crime Report. Though it breaks down deaths into three categories -- by handguns, rifles and shotguns -- it says nothing about how many people are killed by imported guns or "Saturday-night specials," or how many died while resisting a stickup. To clarify the picture, Colorado Representative Patricia Schroeder is sponsoring a bill to establish a national firearm-fatality reporting system. Comparable to the system that tracks motor-vehicle deaths -- and which helps lawmakers tailor car and highway safety laws to real perils of the road -- it would identify gun victims and shooting incidents in greater detail...
...physically and mentally. He is not helped by some of the worst tailoring in Washington; only recently have aides persuaded him to stop wearing his baggy light tan suits to military ceremonies. "Les is always searching for a new idea," says one of his aides. Yes, says Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder, who serves on the Armed Services Committee, but "his folksy style sometimes just doesn't square with the requirements of the office...
That Officer Schroeder will not get his life back troubled her ("his death was shocking to me"), but that is not why she surrendered -- or she would have done so 23 years ago. In fact, as elaborated in a front-page New York Times story about her psychotherapy for depression, her surrender -- for the sake of "full authenticity" -- was a form of therapy, indeed the final therapeutic step toward regaining her sense of self...
...After all these years," concludes Newsweek, "it's hard to know whom to feel the most sympathy for: the ((Schroeder)) children who lost a father . . . ((or)) the young woman who lost her way in the tumult...