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...concern. Manuel Llera, principal of a junior high school in California's Sweetwater Union school district, near the Mexican border, has been forced by parental pressure to remove some Chicano children from the bilingual program. Parents, he says, "are afraid that their kids are going to get a second-class education and that they won't learn English...
...finds that the thrust of this affirmative action is to call women into a field who are not really interested in it, but anticipate better chances for jobs and higher salaries for less work than their competition, being mostly male. Men are second-class citizens: to justify this on the basis that women used to be second-class citizens would be like suggesting that Christians today would be justified in feeding Italians to lions. There is a book out called Solo: Women on Woman, which indicates that the male body has become almost totally desexualized (except to get males...
Last week former CIA Director Richard Helms made much the same point: "If we treat people who do this kind of work as second-class citizens, we are not going to be able to get anybody to do our dirty work...
...incompetent Deputies is always around Demirel; you can't eliminate them," sniffed former Public Works Minister Orhan Alp, explaining his defection. Other J.P. members were angry at Cabinet ministers affiliated with the National Salvation Party, minority members of Demirel's ruling coalition. "They are treating us like second-class citizens," complained one. The dissidents were emboldened to defect after Ecevit's party won 100 of 150 contested urban mayoral posts in local elections last December; counting rural areas, Demirel's coalition won 50.7% of the total vote, a fact that added to Demirel's bitterness...
What happened, particularly for the 14,000 who attended the Houston meeting, was an end to the psychological isolation that had constrained their activities and ambitions. They learned that many other middle-of-the-road , American-as-Mom's-apple-pie women shared with them a sense of second-class citizenship and a craving for greater social and economic equality. Said Ida Castro, an alternate delegate from New Jersey: "It was a total high to get together and discover so many people who agree on so many issues, and finding that I am not alone." Perhaps more important, many women...