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Show X Old line Communist Parties are in existence in the major countries throughout the free world. These parties loyal-to-Mosco- w to endeavor maintain the of respectability appearance insofar as lawlessness and violence are concerned, particularly in those countries where the Party can elect members to public office. Also operating in Western countries, and especially in the United States, are other Communist Parties such as the Socialist Workers Party and numerous groups of (Trotskyite), splinter ' Marxist-Leninist-Maoist-Castro- ite and other revolutionary and liberation type organizations. A careful analysis of the leadership and membership of the various organizations invariably reveals the presence of individuals known to be regular Communist .Party members even though some allegedly have been "expelled." In the Communist take over and attempted take over of several countries, the phony rivalry between the v various Communist and- - revolutionary organizations, including the Socialists, disappears and a strong Communist coalition emerges with trained, experienced and dedicated Communists at the helm. The technique for the take over of a country varies According to existing conditions. Where there is no serf-peo- n or coolie class to recruit into mass movements, the Communist appeal is directed toward various groups on the basis of race, ethnic background, unemployment and welfare, with a promise of a better life. The take over technique without the use of Communist armed forces IA communications financial places, of the and media, assistance from sympathetic international bankers and avaricious industrialists. These elements combined form the pressure from above. From below, the pressure stems from the misled ideologist, the brainwashed and the disadvantaged who have been influenced by the systematic attacks on partriotism, religion, morality and government, a well- planned Communist program of weakening the will to resist. Included also in this pressure from below is the technique of terror, Just as an outbreak of a serious communicablew disease may affect other countries, so can Communist UTAH INDEPENDENT 2459 Major Street PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Speakers promoting the Equal Rights Amendment often cite education as one area where ERA would remedy discrimination against women. This argument is false. There is nothing ERA would do to benefit women in education. It will not give them more opportunities, more pay, or more promotions. ERA proponents usually start off by weeping crocodile tears discriminations about against women which disappeared decades ago, such as women being denied admission to law schools, medical schools, and other graduate schools. This argument belongs in the same category as crying about women not having the right to vote. ERA proponents then proceed to relate how women in education are underpaid and denied promotions, some of which is undoubtedly true. What is emphatically not true is that ERA is the remedy. The principal reason ERA will not remedy kidnappings with political overtones which have occurred in various parts of the world. For the most part, the abductions involved diplomats from past few yearl fj 'll revolutionary, terrorist activity is part of the world Communist Conspiracy and is directed from the same source. House Internal Security Committee recently completed a study of political kidnappings, covering a period from 1968 to 1973, which points out that in recent years there has been alarming success in kidnappings or attempted become as common as it has in the politically important countries as well as government officials and prominent business executives. While kidnapping as a concept of guerrilla warfare is not a new technique, it has never before committee The noted of.: all extremists that political ideologies, especially Marxist-Th- e Leninist, apparently have decided that kidnapping is a highly effective tactic in the battle against superior forces. Terrorist groups in all parts of the world, showing a cruel and calculating disregard for human rights, have engaged in kidnappings primarily for the purpose of winning the release of political prisoners, to obtain ransom money to further their revolutionary objectives? to embarrass government officials. and to strain relations between nations. Another reason for so-call- ed is political kidnappings a propagandize political to or Continued On Page 8 n is that Federal equality in educational opportunities, admissions, and This equality is employment. veassssss tn l t- - fQ r4 O M M cooperation high Communist, legislation is already more than adequate to assure women of everything they could reasonably want. Women are fully guaranteed EDUCATION 06 in government education WOMEN IN ! of the penetration discrimination against women in WONT HELP Paid at Salt Lake City, Utah include successes in any one free countrj? affect other free countries since alt In ERA Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 Second Class Postage THE HERALD OF FREEDOM involves pressure from above and below. To be successful, this must 1973 11, M (VI llVIl Cl M 254 ,Salt Lake Gty, Utah 84115 VOL. 4, NO. j 41 any alleged spelled out in various Federal laws, and enforced by the ubiquitous Federal bureaucracy. The Congressional leading of the Equal Rights proponent Amendment, Congresswoman Martha Griffiths, put a statement in the Congressional Record on February 28, 1973 in which the activist organization leading promoting equality for women in education, the Womens Equity Action League (WEAL), boasted When the 92nd Congress that: adjourned, academic women had almost all they had asked by way of legislation. Almost? Well, there is a small remaining area which is not covered by current legislation, and which the Amendment Equal would Rights wipe out, the undergraduate namely, institutions of higher education which have been traditionally and This would continually single-se- x. include seminaries and other religious academic institutions, military schools, and the few remaining colleges which have been traditionally for men only or for women only. The obsession of ERA proponents for a . constitutional amendment which would eliminate the right of American citizens to operate or attend single-se- x undergraduate colleges, seminaries, or military schools reveals a psychology of which is simply compulsion incompatible with the American traditions of freedom of speech, and freedom of association, freedom of education. Present legislation specifically provides also that institutions educational may maintain separate living facilities for persons of different sexes. Such would also be discrimination eliminated by the Equal Rights Amendment. The principal Federal laws which guarantee women equality of treatment in education are the following: 1 Opportunity Employment Commission: a) to investigate employment practices b)- to investigate discrimination patterns of as well as individual cases of discrimination; c)- to deny, terminate orcancel a Government contract in whole or in. part, and to blacklist an institution from further Government contracts; d)- to require institutions to educational develop an to action affirmative plan recruit, employ and promote women (and other minorities); corrective e)- to require that and timetables" be goals established to fulfill an approved affirmative action plan; so-call- The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII, which was extended in 1. March, Executive Order 1 246 which established the Higher Education Guidelines and authorizes the Department of Labor, the Office for Civil Rights, and the Equal 4. 1972 to cover all educational institutions, public and private, regardless of whether or not they receive Federal aid. 2. The Education Amendments of June 1972, Title IX, which spell out the complete and specific prohibition against discrimination on the basis of sex in all Federally-assiste- d educational programs, from through graduate school, public and private. (Nearly all educational institutions, in the ed educational require institutions to compile data and g)to information on race, sex, color, religion and national origin regardless of any conflicting state or local law, invoking the principle of Federal supremacy. pre-scho- ol in country are Federally-assiste- d some way.) 3. The Equal Pay Act of 1963 which requires equal pay for equal work. Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment would not benefit women in education in any possible way. It would, however, gravely interfere with present educational rights which arc Continued on page 14 |