Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mounted by students still at liberty in Soweto, as a mark of respect for their absent colleagues. After some initial resistance, Soweto's elders generally complied with leaflets distributed by SSRC calling for a moratorium on Christmas presents, parties, the exchange of greeting cards and any other outward sign of celebration. One group of students went so far as to break up a wedding ceremony as "inappropriate"; since then, many marriages have been postponed. One SSRC leaflet warns "it is on such occasions that liquor is served and people generally tend to be drunk and merry...
Despite its generally light touch, the new Catalog broaches some fairly sober issues. A thoughtful chapter on how the deaf can build a rewarding religious life outlines a sign-language worship service. Another section, on blindness, includes a Hebrew alphabet in braille. Other entries grapple with the ethical problems of premarital sex, contraception and abortion, trying to adapt the stern proscriptions of the Torah to more modern attitudes. Jewish divorce laws, for example, are weighted heavily in favor of the husband, making it difficult for the wife to start proceedings. The Catalog suggests ways to balance the inequality. "The important...
...present them in that self-same organization. In an attempt to indicate the ones for which we have felt the strongest priority, the lead sentences of those recommendations have been underlined. Those recommendations which are presumed to have a substantial dollar cost are followed by a dollar sign. Appendix C provides some rough estimates as to the cost of some of these recommendations. It is hoped these signals will provide aid in evaluating these recommendations...
...labor contracts requiring workers to join unions. This, in Marshall's view, would be part of an "equitable solution" under which workers could henceforth be compelled to pay dues but not to join unions. (Carter has not called for the repeal of 14B but has said he would sign a repeal if passed by Congress.) Marshall also denounced existing job-training programs as mere "income maintenance plans that leave participants with no skills." He would replace them with apprentice programs, particularly for women and minority groups...
Classic Guerrillas. The war shows no sign of ending, reports Beckwith, even though Morocco and Mauritania have lost about 1,000 men since last February. Other Arab governments-notably Saudi Arabia-have tried to work out a diplomatic settlement, so far without success. Supplied with East Bloc arms by Libya and Algeria, Polisario is able to struggle on from sanctuaries near the Algerian border town of Tindouf, where about 40,000 Saharoui refugees live in 22 camps. By helping the guerrillas, President Houari Boumedienne is able to keep a third of Archenemy King Hassan's Moroccan armed forces tied...