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  1. <text id=90TT1216>
  2. <title>
  3. May  14, 1990: World Notes:Switzerland
  4. </title>
  5. <history>
  6. TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990               
  7. May  14, 1990  Sakharov Memoirs                      
  8. </history>
  9. <article>
  10. <source>Time Magazine</source>
  11. <hdr>
  12. WORLD, Page 39
  13. World Notes
  14. SWITZERLAND
  15. Back to the Kitchen!
  16. </hdr>
  17. <body>
  18. <p>     Ceremonial swords at their side, 2,500 men marched into the
  19. central square of Appenzell. "You are accountable only to your
  20. conscience and to God," said Beat Graf, the administrator of
  21. Appenzell Inner-Rhoden, a half-canton in northeastern
  22. Switzerland. A forest of arms shot skyward and, by two-thirds,
  23. the men summarily rejected a proposal to grant women the right
  24. to vote in local elections.
  25. </p>
  26. <p>     The show of hands marked the third time since 1973 that the
  27. conservative Catholic electorate has turned down women's
  28. suffrage. "The only result of women's suffrage elsewhere," one
  29. member of the assembly told his colleagues, "is that children
  30. hang around on street corners or spend their time
  31. demonstrating."
  32. </p>
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  34. </body>
  35. </article>
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