Equality for Cuban women in new constitution and laws
In Havana Cuba Cuban women have achieved formal equality under the 1975 constitution and Family Code. Official Ana Maria Navarro notes women now 28 percent of the workforce with no unemployment and widespread progress, though taboos remain. Abortion is legal but discouraged. child maintenance and alimony rules favor both genders depending on finances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ana Maria Navarro
Cuban Women’s Federation
Cuba
Tamara Colombie
Federation
Havana
Navarro
Sex and politics old friends in D.C.
Washington presents a history of sexual scandal and public life, noting high abortion and divorce rates in the District, famous*(sic) cases and the tension between private morals and public duties. It discusses media coverage, theories on sex and power, and the role of feminism and married political spouses in Washington society.
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Washington
UPI
Jimmy Carter
White House
Playboy
District of Columbia
National Capital
New York
Los Angeles
New Orleans
Hollywood
Kissinger
Secretary of State
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Capital Society
Ladybird Johnson
Herman Talmadge
Georgia
Barry Goldwater Jr
California
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
Carter
Andrew Jackson
Peggy O’neale
War Eaton
Peggy
Jackson
Abraham Lincoln
Congress
U.S
Phillip Barton Key
Daniel E. Sickles
Dn.y
Sickles
Key
Lafayette Square
Hooker
Joe’ Hooker
Smithsonian Institution
Red Light
Southern firm develops clean coal for energy needs
Southern Co researchers at the Wilsonville experimental plant in Alabama produce solvent refined coal to cut sulfur and ash impurities. Faced with oil and gas shortages and pollution rules, utilities must bear capital risk to mass produce the fuel, which already meets current environmental standards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gary Seale
Wilsonville
Ala
UPI
Alabama
Southern Co
Florida
Georgia
Mississippi
Appalachian
The
Energy Research and Development Administration
Tennessee Valley Authority
Environmental Protection Agency
Atlanta
TVA
Widows Creek
Congress
Ohio
Connecticut
ERDA
Fort Lewis
Mitchell of Georgia Power Co
Albany
Robinson Crusoe debate signals China military rethink
Peking Radio used Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe to spark China’s broad public discussion on defense spending and military modernization. It argued for stronger arms, contested Mao era beliefs that people trump weapons, and presented ongoing behind the scenes tensions over modernization amid a push to close the gap with the USSR and the United States.
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Hong Kong
UPI
Robinson Crusoe
Peking Radio
Daniel Defoe
China
Communist Party
Mao Tse-tung
Soviet Union
United States
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D.C
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House
Ways and Means Committee
Fanne Fox
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Wayne Hays
House Administration Committee
Southern Firm
Everett Huffman
Southern
Greg Schneiders
Schneiders
Marie Hartnett
Mao
Underwood
Minolta
Wilson
Rockwell
Suzuki
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