In October of 1978, Congress voted to extend the seven-year time limit it had imposed for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) by another three years and three months, to June 30,1982.
Columns
Joyce Hollyday 2-01-1982
Only one day in the month of a monthly magazine is more frenzied, more demanding than the day before deadline, and that is the day that follows. Neither is a day to be gone from the office.
Danny Duncan Collum 2-01-1982
So far President Reagan's "zero option" proposal on medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe has successfully defused the issue on this side of the Atlantic.
Joyce Hollyday 1-01-1982
At the end of last year, an avalanche of virulence toward Nicaragua and Cuba rumbled out of the Reagan administration, with Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Jr. as chief mouthpiece.
Jim Wallis 1-01-1982
"Marginal Notes" is a new column that will appear each month in Sojourners. It will be personal in nature and reflective in spirit.
Rob Soley 1-01-1982
Being a parent is my vocation. I am not necessarily good at it, merely called to it.
Joe Roos 12-01-1981
It was fitting that the first global dialogue between leaders of rich and poor countries would be set in Cancun, Mexico.
Jackie Sabath 11-01-1981
We have often heard it said that love is blind. Many of us have probably denied it when caught in the throes of romance, then agreed with it down the road when the flame died down.
Danny Duncan Collum 11-01-1981
For most of us it was just another Thursday, but for millions of people who depend in some way on the federal government for their livelihood October 1, 1981, was Day One of the Year One for Ronald Reagan's America.
Joyce Hollyday 11-01-1981
Following our arrest for a witness against nuclear weapons in September, several other women and I spent the night being shuttled by paddy wagon from police precinct to central cell block to the D.C. jail
Daniel Goering 10-01-1981
Clad in a necktie for the first time in about two years, I entered the jury lounge along with 200 other people. Our first day of jury duty was about to begin.
Jim Wallis 10-01-1981
Since the Reagan victory last November, the political Right has sought to consolidate its gains.
Joyce Hollyday 10-01-1981
Through Guatemala's tropical lowlands flies a brilliant green and red bird with flowing tail feathers.
Joyce Hollyday 9-01-1981
When young children do it to their parents, we reprimand them. When teenagers do it, we start to worry about their futures.
Danny Duncan Collum 9-01-1981
Every year about this time the television industry unveils a new collection of cops, clowns, sex objects, heroic doctors, and affectionate animals before an increasingly disinterested public.
Phil M. Shenk 8-01-1981
Later this month, people from more than 150 countries will travel to Geneva, Switzerland, to put the finishing touches on an international treaty on the oceans.
Danny Duncan Collum 8-01-1981
In addition to the anniversary of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombings, this August marks another, much happier, anniversary.