Word: women
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early in November, 34 defendants went on trial in Seoul: eleven who had been living in West Germany, three from France, and one each from the J.S. and Austria, among other places. Nine were women. The government prosecutors charged that the defendants had made a total of 19 visits to the North Korean capital of Pyongyang and 142 trips to East Berlin to undergo espionage training and receive instructions from North Korean secret agents. They were also accused of receiving more than $77,000 in operational funds from the Communists from 1958 to 1967. In evidence, the government showed...
...women leaning back in large loungechairs are enclosed from the chest down by a plastic balloon. To the casual observer, they look like a cross between customers at a beauty parlor and weight watchers at a reducing salon...
...gleaming new London quarters in which they are paying customers is neither. The women are pregnant patients preparing for relatively painless childbirth. The key to their goal is contained in equipment they are using and the title of the building in Knightsbridge where they gather at least once a week...
...Heyns hoped to allow it to protrude further, accommodating the changing shape of the womb. He and his colleagues put together a crude decompression device, tried it out on several expectant mothers. Sure enough, it produced a dramatic shortening in the duration of labor, reduced discomfort, and brought the women who submitted to the tests into the final stages of birth in a more relaxed and vigorous state. Word of the boon soon spread...
...government cooperates with private charity organizations, principally the U.S. Catholic Conference, to help ease the transition for immigrants. They are given English lessons and job training. Many women then find jobs as Spanish teachers. Doctors and lawyers are given special crash courses so they can pass American examinations. Housing is found; child care is provided...