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...want females to be assimilated into a "male world." I want to help build a new world--one in which all people relate to each other as humans, instead of as representatives of their sexes. But I feel RUS is trying to thwart this aim. By encouraging the separation of the sexes, it only perpetuates misunderstanding between the sexes and detracts from the process of true human liberation for everyone. And they insult me by making me an enemy in their implied "war of the sexes." Doug Kruse...
...need. Two examples: even though it maintains, officially, a nonaligned foreign policy, India has quietly tried to moderate Soviet influence in Afghanistan. The U.S. and Saudi Arabia have sought to reinforce North Yemen by providing it with some arms to defend itself against encroachment from South Yemen and thus thwart any Soviet designs of gaining full control over Red Sea access routes...
...icemen managed to settle down and thwart the potential runaway, at least for the moment in the last half of the period. It paid...
...complexities of the round-robin play, the Dutch needed a tie with Italy to get a chance at the title. Italy needed a win to go on to the final. The game mucked about inconclusively until, after 18 minutes, a tall and gawky defender named Erny Brandts tried to thwart an attack by lashing savagely at the ball in front of his own goal. He knocked it into the netting and in the bargain crippled his teammate, Goalie Pieter Schrijvers, who was carried off on a stretcher. The score was now Italy: one goal up, and Holland: one goalie down...
Farmers and students thwart an embarrassed government...