International Whose Year?
ALAN, RAY
Euro vista BY RAY ALAN International Whose Year? As International Women's Year sidled out, Spanish cinemas were showing a new film called La mujer es cosa de hombres ("Woman Is a Thing for...
...Having written off da Costa Gomes, the CIA began giving money and encouragement to the Right-wing Democratic Movement for the Liberation of Portugal, now led by General Antonio de Spinola, and its Spanish-based paramilitary ally, the Portuguese Liberation Army, some of whose officers served the Antonio de Oliveira Salazar-Marcello Caetano dictatorship in repressive roles...
...Some trade unions have actually lobbied against equal pay for women...
...counterpart, Daniel P. Moynihan...
...He deserves a lot of credit for the defeat of the Left-wing mutiny and the deflation of the swashbuckling, entertaining but politically infantile General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho...
...in Britain her employer may simply fire her...
...All this is an ocean away from the raucous amazonism of some of those wild American feminist groups we occasionally read about, but I would guess it is nearer what most women want...
...The botched Leftist demicoup played beautifully into the democrats' hands...
...The Socialists, whose premises were spartan, with rickety chairs and two old typewriters shared by 15 inexperienced volunteers, couldn't lose against competition like that...
...A possible solution advocated by many Lebanese: Redraw the country's frontiers, attaching some Moslem areas to Syria...
...The state now undertakes to collect maintenance allowances from errant husbands, too...
...British women were the first to obtain the vote...
...Then, praying that the Right would not move without U.S...
...Since I am allergic to Farouk syndromes, the dark glasses he was wearing indoors on a grey Lisbon morning put me off a little the first time I met him...
...Some credit should go also to the West German and French governments...
...Of course, if Moscow is determined to reshape post-Tito Yugoslavia to its liking-and it seems to be-any excuse will serve...
...As many American and Continental observers have noted, British society is short on togetherness: Except in the educated sector of the middle classes, Englishmen and- even more-Scotsmen tend to be reluctant to admit women to their clubs and unions or to discuss professional, financial and other "important" matters with them...
...In recent years facilities, including financial support, have been extended to housewives who wish to continue their formal education or study for professional qualifications...
...IWY may, for all I know, have transformed women's lives in Bolivia and Bangladesh...
...Off the Record . One argument Bonn put to Washington was that Russia might use a Right-wing coup in Portugal as an excuse for Soviet intervention in Yugoslavia after Tito's death...
...and women employes who have a baby are to become entitled to reinstatement in their jobs and six weeks' maternity pay, although not before 1977 ("if then,' comments The Economist...
...Hoping to make the Lebanese Christians' small homeland a viable state, France annexed to it Moslem communities that would probably have preferred to join Syria...
...The PPD, associated with the distinguished weekly Expresso, already has a substantial educated following...
...In France, for instance, an expectant mother is entitled to leave her employment for three months on full pay, with automatic reinstatement afterward...
...The principle of equal pay was then approved by Parliament (but is as yet only patchily enforced...
...and Left-wingers were bound to answer "The CIA" or "The banks...
...It is hoped that by the early 1980s British women will enjoy the rights now possessed by women in France...
...According to Manuel Azcarate, deputy secretary of the Spanish Communist party, the USSR will oblige Yugoslavia to join the Warsaw Pact should Spain be admitted to NATO...
...Off the Hook PRESIDENT Francisco da Costa Gomes of Portugal is a soft-spoken, unassuming man whom the CIA is said to have described in one assessment as a cipher and a stooge of the extreme Left...
...in Britain, EEC membership...
...They failed to use their votes intelligently or even to assert their basic economic rights...
...Bonn and Paris urged Washington to avoid Chilean-style bulldozing in Lisbon and to rely on a "European" solution...
...Had he resigned, the Wilson government would have been petitioned to nominate the inept Ivor British ambassador to Idi Amin in Uganda...
...France is the EEC's pacesetter in this field...
...And in clear newspaper ads, Mile...
...Last summer, Leonid I. Brezhnev told Willy Brandt that if NATO crushed Communist influence in Portugal, it would have no grounds for criticizing an assertion of the Warsaw Pact's interest in Yugoslavia...
...Many wives do not even know how much their husbands earn...
...As International Women's Year sidled out, Spanish cinemas were showing a new film called La mujer es cosa de hombres ("Woman Is a Thing for Men...
...a law against sex discrimination by employers has just been adopted...
...Moynihan is becoming a folk-hero in many European newsrooms and chancelleries...
...This could not be done in the south, however, without affecting Israel's security...
...Nevertheless, the year did induce a reformist climate, emboldening editors to publish comparisons between the rights of women in neighboring or politically similar states that often revealed shocking differences...
...The social-democratic Popular Democratic party (PPD) and the liberal-conservative Democratic and Social Center (CDS), both savagely attacked earlier this year by the Maoists and Trotskyists, should be able to resume their activities without fear of organized thuggery...
...Equal pay, a minimum salary adjusted to the cost of living, generous allowances for children, domestic help for mothers who fall ill, a state "salary" for housewives who do not go out to work, and a nationwide network of free kindergarten, primary and secondary schools, have long been part of the landscape...
...But the CDS is still an unknown quantity, and not only because of those who tried to silence it...
...the age-limit for women wishing to enter the civil service has been raised to 45 (for men it is 35...
...CIA sources in London complacently predicted an early civil war and Right-wing counter-revolution in Portugal...
...Such feminist gains as were achieved in 1975 resulted mainly from local political circumstances- in Portugal, the revolution...
...Mario Soares, the Socialist leader, has a good rapport with President Valery Giscard d'Estaing as well as with the French and German Socialists...
...The Kremlin is eager to acquire a naval base on the Dalmatian coast and a share in the control of the important Adria pipeline -financed mainly with Arab and Western loans-that is to link Yugoslavia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Austria...
...This was a pity, because its founders are decent people and Portugal obviously needs a civilized, nonconspiratorial conservative party...
...The Portuguese are a frugal, hard-working people and weren't going to give power to those who behaved as if escudos grow on trees...
...and neither Labor nor Conservative governments did much for women until Whitehall opted for membership in the European Community, whose unions and employers both complained that British firms were unfairly advantaged by their ability to employ cheap feminine labor...
...o Contrary to UN rumor, Britain's ambassador to the World Organization, Ivor Richard, was not speaking for Prime Minister Harold Wilson when he made his inane, ill-informed attack on his U.S...
...They were, it is true, inhibited first by the Depression and then by the stop-go cycle of the '50s and '60s that brought periodic economic crises and unemployment...
...The title is a fair comment on the status of women not only in Spain-where they have still not recovered the rights General Franco stripped them of nearly 40 years ago-but in most Mediterranean countries...
...And they were hemmed in by the British version of machismo...
...Francoise Giroud, journalist and Secretary of State for la Condition feminine, reminds women of their legal rights...
...o In the wake of Maurice Couve de Murville's unsuccessful efforts to mediate in Lebanon, it may be worth recalling that the crisis stems in part from French policy there 50 years ago...
...and discrimination against women has been outlawed...
...encouragement, German and French envoys stiffened the will of civilian and military democrats to resist extreme-Leftist salami tactics...
...Once having won what they believed were "equal rights,' however, they contented themselves for the next 20 years with behaving like ersatz males, aping mannish manners and neglecting domestic arts...
...Launched a little over a year ago, the CDS made the mistake, right from the start, of appearing too affluent-big offices, carpets, splendid desks and equipment, an army of clerks and typists, an orgy of posters and handbills People were bound to ask "Where's the money coming from...
...in Western Europe and the Mediterranean region it inspired more magazine articles and postage stamps than reforms...
...Yet I soon found that, unlike most political figures, the closer you get to him, the more favorably he impresses you...
...Portuguese Socialists warned their friends in Bonn and Paris that a Right-wing coup was being prepared...
...Interestingly, in their neck of the woods, the Communists made the same kind of mistake during the election campaign, sticking up 10 posters for every Socialist one...
Vol. 59 • January 1976 • No. 1
