Women study courses struggle for academic respectability
AP report from Pittsburgh notes women's studies on campuses remain seen as an byproduct of the movement. Dr. Ruth Benson of Wesleyan explains administrators doubt the field's worth. the institute at the University of Pittsburgh will plan legal action against discrimination while outlining academic approaches to teaching.
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Pittsburgh
Ruth Benson
Wesleyan University
Connecticut
Labor Department
Benson
Women’s studies may not stay in college catalogs
Dr. Benson, a literature scholar focusing on women writers and myths about women, questioned whether women’s studies will be a permanent catalog entry. She laughed at the idea of automatic self-destruction of women’s courses upon liberation, remarking that it could take forever.
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Betty Friedan
Mrs. Friedan
Simone de Beauvoir
Benson
Arrest of Chinese Official Tied to Red Guard Attacks
London reports an ex senior Foreign Ministry official, Yao Teng-Shan, arrested for Red Guard assaults on British and other missions in Peking during the Cultural Revolution. He faces charges for burning the British mission in August 1967 and attacks on Indonesian and Burmese posts.
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London
Red China
Foreign Ministry
Red Guard
Peking
Yao Teng- Shan
Quotes on government openness and urban medical aid
Sen. Edmund Muskie proposes an independent board to lift secrecy labels on government documents. Sen. Vance Hartke notes railroad study momentum and nationalization refrain. Dr. Walter Bornmeier urges AMA backing for federal aid to doctors starting in ghettos and needy areas.
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Edmund
Muskie
Maine
Vance Hartke
D-Ind
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Walter C. Bornmeier
American Medical Association
AMA
Tyrone Man Crash Victim Dead in U S 220 Accident
A 33 year-old Tyrone man, Christopher Kienzle, died in a one car crash on U S 220 one mile north of Tyrone. Police said his car ran off the road, hit a utility pole, overturned, and pinned him beneath. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Tyrone
U.S. 220
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Christopher Kienzle
Kienzle
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