KIDNAPPED CHILDREN RESCUED

In the June issue of WSW the international kidnapping of Vietnamese children to the U.S. and the role American women have played in it was examined. The article concluded by calling for the return of the children to their families and for the trial of the people responsible for carrying out the kidnapping.

We are pleased to report that action has been taken. A suit has been filed in a California federal court by Muoi McConnell, a Vietnamese woman quoted in the June issue, and the Center for Constitutional Rights, The suite filed in behalf of the children requests the disclosure of the current location of all 2000 children airlifted that the government turn over records relating to the airlift and adoptions and that the children be interviewed to determine if they wish to return to Vietnam.

The legal basis is that the "babylift" violates the 1973 Paris Peace Accords and

the 1949 Geneva Convention on the Protection of Civilian Persons in the Time of War. The lawsuit names Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Secretary of Defense James

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Schlesinger and Attorney General Edward Levi and officials responsible for the "Operation Babylift" whose identities are not yet known.

On May 22, Judge Spencer Williams ruled that the government must make background checks on all 2000 children brought to the U.S. under Operation Babylift. He also ordered the Immigration and Naturalization Service to fingerprint, footprint and photograph the children in preparation for notifying their parents of their whereabouts. The judge ordered that the records of the seven adoption agencies involved be turned over to the court and that adoption proceedings be halted.

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"We're excited," said Nancy Stearns, one of the lawyers arguing the case. "We think that we have made substantial progress in determin. ing whether or not the kids are orphans and laying the aroundwork for reuniting those who have families in Vietnam."

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so no one is unemployed. "Every man and woman in the United States is entitled to a job at weekly pay sufficient for basic needs plus some small surplus." Ginsburg says women are organizing on this issue within labor and political parties. The National Urban League has made full employment a priority issue. The National Committee for Full Employment, co-chaired by Coretta King and Murray Finley, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, has been organized saying that "unemployment at any rate is unacceptable..." and "the guarantee of a job is a fundamental ..right."

Also, on Capitol Hill, Reps. Augustus Hawkins and Henry Reuss and sixty-one cosponsors have introduced the "Equal Opportunity and Full Employment Act of 1976", and Hubert Humphrey has introduced a companion bill in the Senate. The House bill would establish a national policy' and create the necessary machinery

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in workers' wages and salary levels. who retired ten years ago should get the same monthly pensions as those who retired one year ago. Futher, no pensioner should receive more than any other, whatever his or her lifetime earnings. This would be a start toward income equality and remove one prime reason why unions fight to maintain the seniority clause.

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To avoid setting one worker against another for benefits, unemployment compensation should be made uniform in all states of the union. It should be financed solely out of federal tax revenues and be paid for the full time that a man or woman is involuntarily out of a job.

We women must be in the forefront of this fight against unemployment and inflation. We are its victims now, but through our collective power we can reorganize and humanize the economic system that oppresses us. Work with your union and support legislative action (the Equal Rights Amendment) that fosters this cause. Note:

Information for this article was taken from Terence McCarthy, "Ramparts", May/June, 1975, and Helen Ginsburg, "Prime Time", May, 1975

Letters

Sisters:

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In the past few years publishers have been seeking novels with a feminist slant-there's a market for them now! Ironically, male authors are preferred to female. Therefore, novels such as The Stepford Wives are a prostitution of the Feminist Movement. When I read the book, I felt I was being talked down to and the plot did not create suspense-1 live with that fear every day. WSW should do reviews on feminist novels as a preference to male novels of this nature!

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Patricia Hilliard Canton, Ohio

Could you tell me, is this a myth: Black Women want to be Ladies while White Women want to become slaves to business?

to guarantee adequately paying jobs for all..

Further solutions to labor's problems are made by McCarthy, who believes private pension plans should be abolished and provided as part of a social responsibility. Workers should not be obligated to corporations or unions or to bear the burden themselves. Social Security pensions should be much higher than they are today, and they should be given in equal amounts, whatever differences there might have been page 8/What She Wants/July, 1975

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