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<text id=90TT3281>
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Dec. 10, 1990: World Notes:Switzerland
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Dec. 10, 1990 What War Would Be Like
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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WORLD, Page 67
World Notes
SWITZERLAND
Into the 20th Century
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<p> The half-canton of Appenzell Inner-Rhoden has long and
proudly refused women the right to vote in local elections.
Last week it stepped into the 20th century, but not because it
wanted to. The Swiss Supreme Court in Lausanne declared that
Appenzell's 4,500 women over age 20 did have the right to vote.
The justices, responding to a petition by two Appenzell women,
ruled that a 1981 amendment to the constitution declaring men
and women equal before the law should take precedence over
cantonal legislation.
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<p> "I'm relieved," said Beat Graf, head of the local
administration, after hearing the decision. In the town's
central square, some men grumbled about the Diktat from
Lausanne but otherwise took the ruling in stride. The women
seemed pleased if a bit restrained; when night fell, however,
a few quietly decorated the fountain in the all but deserted
square with flowers.
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