Federal investigators are looking into the possibility of a serial bomber in Atlanta after a February 21st explosion at a lesbian and gay night club injured at least five people. Police detonated a second bomb, found in the parking lot, using a remote-controlled robot. The use of the second bomb, placed to injure police and […]
It started after Anne Cribbs and Gary Cavalli walked into a mall and spotted Molly Goodenbour selling socks for minimum wage. Goodenbour, who had led her Stanford University’s basketball team to winning two NCAA championships in the early 1990s, inspired Cribbs and Cavalli to raise $4 million to start the American Basketball League. The year-old […]
The fundamentalist regime in Saudi Arabia continues to monetarily support the Islamic Fundamentalist regime Taliban in its quest to occupy more land. Taliban has banned women from working, punished them for not covering themselves from head to foot and has prohibited girls from attending school. With strong financial support, the Taliban is looking to capture […]
A new study of Kentucky’s sex-offender treatment program recommends that released offenders receive at least two years of state supervision after they leave prison. Katherine Peterson, the program’s administrator, commented that most sexual offenders who commit another offense do so within two years of being released from prison. Kentucky House Judiciary Chairman Mike Bowling commented, […]
President Clinton told reporters yesterday that the Senate should schedule hearings for his nominee to serve as Secretary of Labor, Alexis Herman. Clinton commented, “There has still not been a hearing. I think that’s a big mistake. She has wide support among labor — labor unions endorsed her yesterday Ð and she has wide support […]
In Vermont, Lt. Col. Martha Rainville has become the first appointed woman to head a state national guard. Vermont lawmakers appointed her by a 104 to 73 margin over Maj. Gen. Donal Edwards in secret balloting. Vermont is the only state which appoints its adjunct general, the head of the state’s national gaurd..
After a long, heated national debate, Portuguese lawmakers yesterday narrowly defeated a bill which would have allowed unrestricted abortions during the first twelve weeks of pregnancy. The bill lost by a 112 – 111 vote with three abstentions. The lawmakers did however, vote to extend the period for abortion in cases of rape or incest. […]
Following allegations of widespread sexual harassment on a German Army base, the Army is examining how widespread sex crimes are at bases in Western Europe and Bosnia. The allegations at the training center in Darmstadt, Germany included rape, sodomy and cruelty. The Army has relieved the commander of the training base of his duties because […]
On February 18th, anti-abortion extremist James Anthony Mitchell, 38, broke into and firebombed a Falls Church, Virginia abortion clinic. Falls Church Vice Mayor David Snyder said that the extremist was clearly, “protesting abortion.” Unfortunately for Mitchell, he didn’t leave the clinic before he firebombed it and got trapped inside by the flames. The fire caused […]
The Supreme Court ruled in Philadelphia v Contractors Assn. Of Eastern Pennsylvania that a set-aside program run by the city of Philadelphia is not constitutional. The program set aside one-fourth of public contracts for women and people of color. A judge’s ruling barring the city from enforcing the program until the outcome of the legal […]
TV Guide reports that writers of the hit t.v. sitcom Ellen have written a special one-hour show during which Ellen reveals that she is a lesbian. The script calls for Ellen to reveal to her psychiatrist, who may be played by Oprah Winfrey, that she is attracted to another woman. ABC and Walt Disney Television […]
Labor leaders, gathered for the annual mid-winter meeting of the AFL-CIO, are demanding that the millions of welfare recipients headed into the workforce receive at least minimum wage. They also demand labor law protections cover the so-called “workfare” recipients. Officials fear that if labor laws do not protect these new workers, state and local governments […]
On February 19, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Schenk v. Pro-choice Network of Western New York which upholds fixed buffer zones at abortion clinics. The Court upheld two of the three forms of injunctive relief by allowing not only the fixed buffer zones but also by recognizing the right of clinic personnel and […]
The Supreme Court upheld a federal law that makes it illegal for employers to retaliate against workers or former workers who filed anti-discrimination complaints against the employer in Robinson v. Shell Oil. The Court unanimously ruled that this law can apply to former, as well as to current, employees. The ruling allows a Maryland businessman, […]
Emily Hahn, an early feminist and prolific writer, died on February 18th at age 92. In 1974 she wrote the influential, Once Upon a Pedestal: An Informal History of Women’s Lib and throughout her career also wrote articles for The New Yorker on subjects such as apes, D.H. Lawrence and her trips to the Far […]
Jeanie Mentavlos, one of the two female cadets who left the Citadel in January after a semester, has detailed the series of mental and physical abuse which she endured. Speaking during an interview at her home, Mentavlos related that early in her days at the South Carolina military college, a male upperclassmen ordered her into […]
A traveling exhibit currently in Los Angeles offers fifty-eight books for young women which star a variety of heroines. Started in Washington, D.C. by the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the “Brave Little Girls” exhibit was so successful that sponsors took it to Los Angeles and will soon take it to San Francisco […]
The American Embassy in London has claimed state immunity in an effort to block a sexual harassment judgment. Mary Fogarty claims she was sexually harassed at the embassy when her boss repeatedly made obscene comments at her and began licking her ear. She subsequently lost her job, and the embassy repeatedly turned her down for […]
Organizers behind the new National Soccer Alliance announced on February 15th that an eight-team women’s soccer pro-league will hold its first matches on April 17, 1998. Julie Foundy, the gold medal winning U.S. Olympic soccer athlete, commented that the organization has full support of the players. “[W]e are not only excited about this, we are […]
In the third federal appeals court ruling to uphold the government’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 on February 14 to uphold the military’s policy banning homosexual conduct on or off duty. A discharged sailor had argued that the military ban was unconstitutional because it treated lesbians […]
