Word: womens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Damascus parade and shouted the battle cry against Israel: "Armed struggle is the only means to liberation!" Tiny Lebanon canceled the celebration of May Day because of its current political crisis. But in Yemen, the capital city of San'a witnessed a workers' procession in which women employed by a Chinese-built textile mill marched with the men for the first time in history...
...being responsible for the police brutality that took place in Chicago during the Democratic Convention." Fumed a columnist in the Irish Times: "Waterford might just as well consider it a cause for celebration if it discovered that Adolf Eichmann's and Ian Paisley's grandmothers were Waterford women...
...later 1970s, NASA hopes to put up a giant "orbiting campus" that will remain in space for ten years, with twelve-man crews changing every six months. Eventually, the campus can be expanded to house a "faculty" of 100 U.S. and foreign scientists, including women as well as men, who would be ferried up and down by shuttle vehicles...
...also approved a new Roman missal, the book of prayers used by the priest at Mass; the new rubrics flatly forbid any fur ther unauthorized experimentation but approve such tested innovations as the use of jazz and folk music in the liturgy and end the centuries-old requirement that women cover their heads in church...
Self-Sacrifice. Taking up more substantial issues, the conference sanctioned birth control in special hardship cases, but refused otherwise to raise the lowly status of women in the Islamic world. Moslem husbands may still divest themselves of an unwanted wife by simply repeating "I divorce thee" three times. The conference also took a surprisingly moderate stand on the Middle East. It refused to consider the demand of the El Fatah guerrillas for a jihad (holy war) against Israel - and pointedly explained that the word jihad also meant sacrificing one's self for the good of mankind...