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...most effective tactic of the opponents is the misleading rhetoric that they have used to cloud the issues. The 52 words of the amendment add up to a simple statement that equality of rights shall not be denied by government on the basis of sex. But in Florida, as elsewhere, opponents claimed that the ERA would force the legalization of homosexual marriage, end the support of wives by their husbands, and require use of the same public toilets by men and women. With scant effect, legal experts insist that the ERA requires none of these measures...
...weeks. Yet ERA has lost in that state twice before, and local politicians believe the measure cannot clear both the house and senate during the current session. Looking further ahead, ERAmerica, the group coordinating the ratification drive, hopes to defeat key opponents during the 1978 state-legislature elections-a tactic that could produce some last-minute ratifications early in 1979. Sympathetic groups like the National Education Association have announced they will not schedule conventions in states that have not passed the ERA. Proclaims NOW Founder Betty Friedan: "I say to the women of America, we gotta stop being so ladylike...
...family's complex web of emotional transactions is like a cybernetic, or automatically controlled system. Sometimes, when internal pressures threaten to blow the family apart, one member-usually a son or daughter-either knowingly or unknowingly agrees to become mentally ill. In a number of complex ways, this tactic holds the family together. But the child pays a big price. Says Murray Bowen, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Georgetown University Medical Center: "The main building block of schizophrenia is the process through which parental immaturity is transmitted to children...
Flynn said the administration's challenge to the union's composition was just a delaying tactic. He added that Wood was "out to bust the union...
...vulnerable the society is to such attacks. Given the circumstances, it was wondrous that the drama ended with so little blood spilled: one dead and four wounded by gunfire, a dozen others cut and beaten. That the toll was not higher was in part a tribute to the primary tactic U.S. law enforcement officials are now using to thwart terrorists-patience (see box). But most of all, perhaps, it was due to the courageous intervention of three Muslim ambassadors, Egypt's Ashraf Ghorbal. Pakistan's Sahabzada Yaqub-Khan and Iran's Ardeshir Zahedi...