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i ii wt iu\jy iuuvjj uuiuiv/to the 19th amendmentGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) - First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, celebrating the 75th anniversary Saturday of the constitutional amendment that gave women the vote, said her trip to China will be “about giving a voice to women.She and President Clinton said the U N. conference will be an important forum to promote women’s rights in the United States and around the world. Violence, health care, political freedom and economic opportunity are still relevant issues to women 75 years after they got the right to vote in America, they said.If women and girls don’t flourish, families won’t nourish. And if families don’t nourish, communities and nations won’t nourish.Clinton, who joined his wife at the commemoration, said the international gathering in Beijing next month is true-blue to families, a pointed retort to conservatives who have complained the meeting agenda is anti-family.Mrs. Clinton, who plans to address the meeting Sept 4-5, accepted the invitation Friday, one day after China released human rights activist Harry Wu. Chinese authoritiesconvicted Wu, a Chinese-American, of espionage and had sentenced him to 15 years in prison.Critics have said the first lady's visit rewards China for detaining a U.S. citizen. The Clinton administration also has been accused of coddling China, an emerging economic power, despite its human rights abuses.In her first expanded remarks on the visit, Mrs. Clinton said the conference is a celebration of women. It’s a celebration of family.The U.S. delegation will try to focus attention on the challenges and burdens women face trying to improve their lives,” she said.About 300 women’s rights activists attended the eventThe 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote, was certified 75 years ago Saturday.In Washington, an estimated 2,000 people marked the anniversary by marching along the same route followed by suffragists in 1913.I came here to honor those women who went before, our foremothers, as they call them, for their enormous courage, said Gloria Cole, who is on the board of the League of Women Voters in Maryland.
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Alton Telegraph
Alton, Illinois, US
Sun, Aug 27, 1995
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