Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back to New York from the Panama Canal Zone, Nation Associate Editor Edwin Warner stopped in Houston to attend the National Women's Conference. "I had just been exposed to the clash of ideologies over the Panama Canal Treaty," he explains, "and I thought that the controversy in Houston might be even more exhilarating. I also thought that men would be in some disfavor in Houston that weekend, but I decided to go anyway." Warner, who wrote a major portion of our cover story this week on the state of the women's movement, did not run into...
...majority ruled. "I learned all about parliamentary procedure," said Sharon Talbot, "but I never got to hear the pro-family side. It's only fair that they should get to speak too." Linda Downs, editor of Woman Time, a bimonthly dealing with working women, said that businesswomen she knew thought the convention was a "ripoff because it was so onesided. The T-shirt brigade predominated, and that was unfortunate. The emotional issues predominated, and that too was unfortunate...
After the vote favoring abortion, angry pro-family delegates staged a demonstration and held aloft giant color photographs of aborted fetuses. Shaking and weeping, one anti-abortion woman cried: "I never thought they would come to this. It's murder!" Said another: "It will be old people next...
...Lady Bird Johnson, joining the women's movement was a new commitment. "People whom I respect and believe in and like were part of it," she said later from her ranch in Johnson City, Texas. "Particularly my two daughters - they thought it was right." How would Lyndon have taken it all? Replied Lady Bird: "In one of his last speeches, Lyndon said, 'Change is not our enemy.' I believe he would be welcoming all this...
...whoever would represent the Palestinians at Geneva. His invitation to the West Bank leaders may also have been a warning to the P.L.O. to soften its anti-Israel stance in the interests of a greater good -a settlement that could lead to a Palestinian entity. Privately, some P.L.O. members thought that if the organization was being neglected by Arab moderates it had only itself to blame. Washington had stated that some gesture of recognition toward Israel could lead to dialogue. Overplaying its hand, the P.L.O. had refused to make any such gesture, thereby losing a golden opportunity to gain wider...