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Lesbian Rights. "Sexual preference," the feminist euphemism for lesbian rights, was not on the original agenda for Houston, but under the rules any subject had to be considered if ten or more state conventions asked for it. The demand for a lesbian rights provision came thundering down from no fewer than 36 state conventions. "It was obviously a grass-roots movement," says Lenore McNeer, who chaired the Vermont delegation and was one of the delegates who felt that lesbian rights is a civil liberties issue inappropriate to the agenda of a women's rights convention. But in the interest...
...National Security Adviser, has described as "Geneva Up": a peace conference at which most procedural and some substantive issues had been agreed upon in advance to preclude the possibility of failure. The alternative was "Geneva Down": an unfocused, probably contentious conference at which even basic procedures would be subject to intense wrangling. At week's end Foreign Minister Dayan flew to West Germany for a scheduled round of talks with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's government. Across the Middle East, rumors rebounded that he might meet there with Egyptian diplomats-or, possibly, even go later to neutral Rumania...
...restore sovereignty to Syria. The Israelis rightfully protest that before the Six-Day War, Syrian forces on the Heights bombarded civilian kibbutzim in the Hula Valley and along the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Thus, in exchange for Israeli withdrawal, the Heights must be declared a demilitarized zone subject to inspection by international patrols reinforced by Israeli and Syrian inspection teams...
...Palestinian entity would have three limits on its sovereignty: 1) it would be allowed to have only police and limited self-defense forces, subject to international inspection; 2) it would be prohibited from making any international agreements directed against Israel; 3) it would have to tolerate the presence within its borders of an international peace-keeping force, presumably under United Nations auspices...
...Museum of Fine Arts presents the second in its series of harpsichord lectures on Tuesday. The subject will be Virginals by Johannes Ruckers, Antwerp 1620. John Gibbons, harpsichordist to the Musical Instruments Collection of the MFA, is the lecturer. Call 267-9300, ext. 340, for more information...