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...language of rape--language that we all use and influence--can be amended for and against the protection of women's rights. Women's rights are currently losing, with the help of network correspondents, State Department personnel, custody judges' clerks, and ordinary viewers and readers like...
...Union during the next year. Israel said it would happily take in 100,000 Soviet Jews by 1992. There is a good chance, however, that at least some of the newcomers might ultimately be housed in the occupied West Bank, where U.S. policy strongly opposes Israeli expansion. Secretary of State Baker was none too pleased with that prospect when Israel informally requested $400 million in loan guarantees to build housing for new emigrants. His frosty response: the U.S. was unlikely to be able to find that sum "in this day of severe budget constraints...
What can a hate group do to clean up its dirty image? The Reidsville klavern of North Carolina's Ku Klux Klan thought it had come up with a tidy answer: it offered to join the state's Adopt-a-Highway program, under which 5,000 civic and social organizations have agreed to keep 10,000 miles of state highways clear of litter. At least four times a year, the Klansmen would exchange their white robes for orange vests and pick up trash along three miles of U.S. 158, east of Reidsville. In return, a sign noting their good deeds...
...explained James Sughrue, a DOT official. No other volunteers, except a cub-scout pack considered too young to be on the roads, had been turned down for the highway-cleanup project. Rockey Chapman, head of the klavern, admitted he wanted "that sign to advertise my group." He asked the state branch of the American Civil Liberties Union to sue for a reversal of the rejection. The A.C.L.U. was expected to do so on the ground that the KKK was the victim of discrimination based on its "political philosophy...
...strike as long as the last one, which went on for 45 days in 1977, could be devastating to all sides. Boeing is far and away the largest employer in both the Seattle area (where it has 106,000 workers) and the state (144,725) and spends as much as $1 billion a year on supplies in the region. A prolonged stoppage would cost thousands of jobs in other areas, ranging from parts manufacturers to restaurants. Increased unemployment would have a heavy impact on the state government, which has no income tax and is heavily dependent on sales-tax revenue...