Word: womanizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arguing becomes complicated upon the arrival of government official Freddy Fox, who holds the authorization for the Pablo Neruda Foundation, which is to be created upon Matilde's death. He tells the communists that if they deny the dead woman's wishes and allow all leftist groups to converge on the cemetery under no specific leadership and without the church, he will authorize the Foundation. Lisboa's group accepts, but Fox meanwhile calls hundreds of police troops to surround the cemetery and to take notes on the leftists in attendance. The communists achieve their foundation, but they compromise their secrecy...
Liberal Protestants have long been among the most ardent supporters of a woman's right to abortion. Consider the Rev. Howard Moody of Manhattan's Judson Memorial Church. In 1967, more than five years before the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws that prohibited abortions, the Baptist pastor organized a referral and counseling service for women seeking the then illegal procedure. Moody was a minister in the American Baptist Convention, a confederation of congregations that was adopting its own high-profile prochoice position. In 1968 the denomination officially sanctioned abortions during the first three months of pregnancy...
...Howard Moody, the pace-setting prochoice pastor, does not feel hampered by the A.B.C.'s new policy: "I know the conservatives are trying to water down the abortion stance of the mainline churches, but as long as the bottom line is the protection of the conscience of the individual woman to do what she has to do, we're in our tradition." One consequence of the changing mood within the mainline groups: it will be increasingly difficult for them to continue to play an activist role in the ever more volatile abortion debate...
LaFalce also wants the Government to match private contributions for the purpose of setting up new management-training programs for women entrepreneurs in several U.S. cities. The leading operation of this type: the American Woman's Economic Development Corp. (AWED). A nonprofit Manhattan center, AWED offers courses in marketing, finance and other business basics. Says Beatrice Fitzpatrick, founder and president of AWED: "We're teaching women the rules of the game." Since 1977, 1,267 entrepreneurs have graduated from AWED's 18- month program. Only seven of the AWED-guided start-ups (0.6%) have declared bankruptcy. Bootstrap programs for would...
DESCRIPTION: Social Security Trust Fund assets, 1980 and projected into 2050; color illustration of older woman in rocking chair...