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...odds don't look too good for us," Moseby said. "In 1971 when we introduced a motion to admit women, we lost, 321-95. Unless the delegates vote to allow local chapters the option of admitting women, we'll be cut off. But I refuse to let women be second-class citizen...
...stop the emigration. Jews represent only 1% of the Soviet population of nearly 250 million, but they have earned a disproportionately high representation in scholarly, scientific and artistic fields. Soviet statistics show, for example, that 7% of all scientific workers are Jews. Yet Jews in many ways are second-class citizens in Russia. No works in Hebrew are permitted to be published, nor are any books in any language published there about Jewish history or culture. Zionism is considered a treasonable crime. When some Jews began to agitate for permission to emigrate to Israel-a phenomenon that arose after Israel...
Kilson's amendment requiring joint concentrations was narrowly defeated last January. One of the amendments's opponents, James S. Ackerman, Professor of Fine Arts, said at the time that telling a Department how to run its affairs would make that Department second-class. Nevertheless, talk of requiring Afro concentrators to master a "core discipline" remains part of the Afro debate...
...although some argue that the Digest's unique policies result in a conservatively biased, second-class magazine, it cannot be denied that when applied to family filmmaking they result in a suitable effort, perhaps the likes of which have not been seen since the death of Walt Disney. Tom Sawyer is far from perfect, to be sure. But compared with such recent Disney productions as The Love Bug, it will no doubt provide quite a refreshing change for those who enjoy "family" films...
Gaddafi's stormiest encounter came in a meeting with 1,000 prominent Egyptian women, who expressed fears that the merger would mean that they would have to adopt the strict Islamic law relegating women to the second-class citizenship Gaddafi has forced on Libyan women. "Because of biological defects, a woman's place is in the home," intoned Gaddafi. "These are not defects, Mr. President!" came the outraged reply. "All right, then," responded Gaddafi, "nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps." That sexist sentiment hardly endeared him to the women. To make matters...