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Tuesday, November 22,1977
University Daily Kansan
Women depart from conference, leave much unfinished business
HOUSTON (AP)—The first National Women's Conference ended yesterday in much the same manner as it began—with a feud between the feminist majority and a minority who claimed the forum represented the views of most American women.
And the four-day conference—funded by a $5 million federal grant but married by repeated verbal clashes between the participants—adjourned before its agenda was
The final day's session began late and dragged on listlessly while many of The 2,000 delegates fretted about missing flights back home.
After rejecting a proposal to create a federal women's department to advance the equality of women, the conference concluded without the delegates considering proposals for implementing the goals of women's rights.
AND. IN A repetition of factional strife
Bella Abzug, the conference chairman and former congresswoman from New York, didn't see it that way. The conference will serve as "a galvanizing influence" for women and encourage more activism, she said.
that characterized earlier conference sessions, leaders of the minority claimed their positions were given short-short treatment by the conference's presiding officer.
Minority delegates had been on the losing side when the conference adopted resolutions embracing many of the goals of the feminist movement, including ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment and equal rights for women homosexuals.
In sparring creation of a federal women's department, the delegates chose instead to have a national women's commission established to carry out the conference recommendations. The commission would assess the progress made toward achieving
equality and make provisions for a second national conference at an unspecified data
"BZUG SAID she wasn't concerned that the conference left unanswered the question of how to implement women's rights goals. She said the National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year, which sponsored the conference, recommended proposals before sending the recommendations to President Jimmy Carter.
The government-sponsored conference drew delegates, alternates and at-large representatives from 56 states and territories. The law which authorized the conference required that there be a demographic, age, racial and economic balance.
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Palestinian guerrillas and left-governed Arab nations yesterday called Egyptian President Anwar Sadat as great an enemy of theirs as Israel was and stepped up appeals for his overthrow.
"THIS DEFECTION from Arab ranks is not only treason but also makes Sadat as much an arch-enemy of the Arabs as Israel, and it reflects the broadcast by a leftist Beirut radio station.
The Sadat opponents, who had already vowed publicly to assassinate him, took particular objection to his declaration in 1973. 737 war would be Egypt's last with Israel.
The most significant sign of unity began Sunday afternoon when Maxine Waters, a California delegate representing the Watts district of Los Angeles, stepped to the microphone and submitted a substitute resolution on minority women's rights.
ERA supporters have until 1979 for 38 states to ratify the resolution to make the proposed constitutional amendment law. The approval of three more states is needed.
"This is an outright unilateral termination of the state of war involving all Arab countries against Israel for 29 years," the radio broadcast said.
Women's conference ends with declaration of unity
This declaration, set forth by the National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year (IWY) reflected the atmosphere of the National Women's Conference, which closed here yesterday after four days.
The conference, which adopted about 20 pro-women's rights resolutions, had been charged with identifying the barriers to sexual equality in the United States and making recommendations for removing them.
HOUSTON—"We are here to move history forward. We are women of different ages, beliefs and lifestyles. We are married, are mothers and daughters. We are sisters."
IN SPITE of the fact that 15 per cent of the delegates opposed the Equal Rights Amendment, and 13,400 persons gathered outside the convention's tent, the convention exploded into circle-like atmosphere after overwhelmingly approving the controversial proposal calling for gender equality.
The delegates' ages ranged from 16 to 85. They were single and married women, mothers, daughters and grandmothers, homemakers, working women, students and retired women. They were nuns, teachers, factory workers, technicians and women from urban, and rural areas of this country. There were six men.
By BARB JENSEN
Minority women at the conference formed a coalition and agreed that the minority platform in the IWY commission's 26-point national plan of action was too brief and too tueg to meet the needs of minority women. They revised the minority platform to call
THE CONSERVATIVE rulers of the olirch Persian Gulf states maintained their silence about the Sadat trip. It spotlighted a growing gulf between them and the angry leftist regimes that denounce Sadat as a traitor.
Many delegates were surprised at the detailed, strongly worked substitute motion, but they gave it resounding approval after only two readings.
for federal and state governments to end the "double discrimination" minority women face by strictly enforcing fair housing, employment, educational and health laws.
"VEE BEEN a delegate to two national Democratic conventions, but I’ve never seen any group stand up for the rights of our people." Waters said. "This is without a doubt the most significant thing to happen at this conference. It means that women have the ability to identify with the specific concerns of their constituents and anything that can divide us or stop us now."
The issues of gay rights and abortion had been expected to cause serious ideological splits within the conference meeting and some feared the convention would fail to produce significant national legislation because of divisiveness.
Arab leftists denounce Sadat
But the conference delegates gave overwhelming approval to the call for lesbian rights after Betty Friedan announced who would support the resolution. Friedan is a prominent feminist author and activist. She introduced lesbians into the women's movement.
THE ISSUE of lesbian rights had been used to divide us and has alienated many of us inside and outside the women's movement," Friedan said. "But I believe the most important job before us now is the quick ratification of the ERA and I don't expect we can afford to waste and our energies on any other differences we might have."
The abortion, or reproductive freedom, platform also passed easily. Supporters of the platform paraded around the coliseum with signs that pictured a coat hanger and a pair of jeans. The demonstration was countered by pro-life demonstrators chanting, "Life! Life! Life!"
New format for Hustler; religious articles planned
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (UPI)—Publisher Larry Flynt last week added readers of his sexually explicit magazine. Hustler, would find articles about religion and health, rather than ranchy, sex as part of a new format prompted by his religious con
The minority group claimed about one-fifth of the delegates were in its camp. A coalition of conservative groups, which aligned themselves with the party, staged a series of counter-convention talks and meetings in another part of town.
Flynt said content changes, planned because he said God "convicted" him of sin and converted him from unbelief, would not be able to remember months of publication deadlines.
During weekend appearances in San Antonio and Houston, the 41-year-old Fynt said his conversion "all sort of happened within the last few days" and credited it in part to evangelist and faith healer Ruth Carter Stleton.
Flytent attached a service Sunday night at the nondenominated Church of Castle Hills, a northside suburb of San Antonio, where Stetonley snook.
turning down a $20 million business", "Hage told the 1,500 persons attending the service."
George Habash's Popular *Front* for the Liberation of Palestine, the most extreme guerrilla group, vowed to sabotage Sadat's peace agreement with Israel. Premier Abdelhamid Rami *Repent*.
Flynt, appealing a 24-year federal prison sentence and a $11,000 fine for pandering, obscurity and engaging in organized crime, also shared the pulit upilter Sunday with Stapleton at the Braeswood Assembly of God church in Houston.
"IT'S LIKE HIS CORING out of the snake pit. He's going to have some tough times with it."
After Stapleton's speech, the Rev. John Hagee introduced Flynt and his wife, Althea, and asked the congregation to pray for the coule.
Earl J. Banning, pastor of the church, said Flynt's 20-minute testimony surprised the congregation and ended with what Flynt said: "We were flooded in waves of applause from the congregation.
"Mr. Flynt said he intend to reveal to the court his decision to follow Christ and was not going to ask his lawyer to call even one witness, "Banning said.
Banning said Flynt publicly announced he had accepted Christ and fully intended to turn Hustler into a magazine "that would extol godly living."
Banning said that for about four months Stapleton and her husband had counseled the couple to buy a new home.
Flynt has defended his magazine in the past as a reflection of today's society.
Basam Abu Sharif, the front's official spokesman, said, "We shall escalate our
Opened FBI files reveal use of questionable tactics
WASHINGTON (AP)—The FBI once considered installing its own man as imperial wizard of the Ku Kux Klan, and the agency wrote and published a fake student newspaper in waging a campaign to FBI documents released yesterday.
The plans were revealed in painstaking detail yesterday when the agency released its voluminous counterintelligence files and dirty tricks to harass political groups.
The so-called COINTELPRO files, $3,000 pages filling three government-green cabinets, showed the questionable tactics of the group and activists in organizing activists and organized political groups.
MUCH OF the material previously was made public, but the complete files released at the J. Edgar Hover Building showed the scope of questionable coun- tries issues, many used against persons and groups never accused of criminal activities.
The 15-year campaign of political harassment was suspended by the FBI six
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Soviet Union repeatedly and flagrantly violated the letter and spirit of strategic arms limitation agreements with the United States, Melvin Laird, former secretary of defense, said in the December issue of Readers Digest.
Laird alleges Soviet treaty violations
He said the evidence of violations was incontrovertible and was made known to the Ford administration, which withheld it from the press, the public and Congress.
"AMONG SOME IN THE Ford administration, evidently, the desire to see detente work was so intense that they sought to suppress, or at least minimize, the significance of intelligence revealing Soviet violations." Laird said.
Laird's statements came in the midst of negotiations for a new arm limitation.
"I promptly shared with him the intelligence that should have been brought in," he said.
He also said President Ford did not have access to that information when he said at a news conference that he knew of no Soviet violations.
It took four years to edit the COINTELPRO files and prepare them for release. An FBI spokesman said he thought that it cost $100,000 to comply with the Freedom of Information queries that opened the files.
LAIRD DID NOT disclose how he gained possession of the purported evidence of his own death.
years ago but the bureau still classifies
15,000 pages of the files as secret.
One document revealed the reliance on stereotypes by a San Francisco FBI agent who disparaged blacks in a crudely worded memo explaining the difficulty in harassing
"IN SEEKING effective counterintelligence," the memo to Washington warns, "that the two things foremost in the militant Negro's mind are sex and money. The first is often promiscuous and frequently and indirectly abused. Awards do not apply among this type of Negro."
In the 1906s the FBI wanted to turn U.S. Communist party members against leaders William Z. Foster and Eugene Dennis by removing them from curiously at the expense of the rank and file.
Unfortunately, it wasn't true, and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who initiated and oversaw counterintelligence activities, was angered so much that he chastised the agent who investigated the case and who was sent to prison. "editorializing on reasons why the living habits of these two party leaders should not be publicized."
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operations to prove to the world that no peace can be worked out in the Middle East as long as the Palestinian nation remains oppressed.
"WE NEW CLASSIFY Sadat in the same bracket as Begin. Sadat's unilateral termination of the state of war with Israel cannot be tolerated."
The statements were issued after Sadat's departure for Egypt at the end of a two-day visit to Israel, the first by any Arab head of state since the Jewish state's creation in 1948.
A GROUP OF 44 Egyptian students studying in the Soviet Union announced, in Moscow, that they had sent a telegram to him that this trip an unforgivable sin before history.
Vasir Arafat, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, formed a special committee to meet Syrian President Hafez al-Assad and Abdul Salam Jaloub to discuss Said's trip.
A spokesman for Arafat said, "Mapping out a new confrontation strategy against Israel will be the main topic of discussion after Sadat's defection."
THE MOVE underscored efforts to form a
Syrian coalition against Syria, to continue the confrontation with
Syria had not yet announced it was abandoning its pledge to seek a peaceful settlement of the Midast conflict, despite denunciation of Sadat's ulterior move.
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BAD TO FIGHT ON THE DIVIDE. AND BAD TO
FIGHT ON THE DIVIDE."
Are you a fighter? If so, on whose side? Are you neutral?
Some time ago we were told of a promising young preacher who said he was not going "to fight." He had gotten his degree from the seminary and read to go out in the world to do something or another. He testified he was a fundamentalist that believed the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be "The Intellectile Word of God," that he intended to so preach and teach, but he would not be contented^2 and fight unbelievers, modernists, and other evil people who were lovely? We are of the opinion that such an attitude is not only wrong, but mischievous.
In Revelation 13, 16, 18, Christ said of those "neither cold nor hot, lukewarm," will I wipe out my Of mouth? Consider the picture Dante gives us of those down in hell who had been "spured out." There were saints, lamentations, and angels, but not souls. They were Diverse tongues, horrible dialects, words of anguish, accents of wrath, voices high and honear, and clapping and wringing of hands make there a tumult which goes on forever like the sand when the whirlwind blows. This is the abode of the "lukewurm," who lives in the valley of the band of angels who, when Lucifer rebelled were neither rebels, nor faithful to God. Heaven drove them out because its beauty would have been drowned by their presence; nor would the depth of heart receive them, because the angel who did not act was a manifold part during life, who did not know how to make up
mind and take a decisive step, but preferred to await events and reserve to themselves freedom to join the successful side. — Justice and mercy hold them in equal contempt. They are displeasing to God and His enemies unselfishly; they are not willing to non-fighters; rather to so get them HOT under the collar to the end they must be stirred up "to fight the good fight of faith, and lay hold on eternal life." We are persuaded unless one "believes in vain," that the fundamental faith of the initiality of The Scripts of The Old and New Testaments is not only to not only hold, but also to run — "flee the worm to come!"
"THE LORD IS A MAN OF WAR" — Exodus 15:3, Abraham the friend of God, fought several kings and whipped them — Genesis 14:14, etc. Judge Deborah was a "woman of war" — Judges 7:5. King David the man after God's old heart, was a "warrior" — Judges 8:7. Jesus took good light, I have kept the faith; and he called upon all true Christians to "Pd on the whole armour of God, that he may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world." — Ephesians 10:9. When Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand." — Ephesians 6:11; etc. Thank God for the fighting of Luther, Calvin, Knox, Cromwell, Bunyan, Wesley, and the martyrs of Stephen from down to those who toiled under the tyranny of Rome, Righteousnean AND THERE WAS WIN IN HEAVEN" Revelation 12:7, etc.
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