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In defence of women

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Criticism of China was widespread among the estimated 30,000 attendees at the Sep 1995 United Nations Conference on Women in Beijing. Critics were especially rankled at China's overzealous security and harsh visa policies. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton took China to task in a featured speech.

Author: Corelli, Rae
Publisher: Rogers Publishing Ltd.
Publication Name: Maclean's
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0024-9262
Year: 1995
Conferences, meetings and seminars, Clinton, Hillary Rodham, Women's rights, Speeches, lectures and essays, Beijing, China, 1995 AD, United Nations Conference on Women

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A parent's nightmare: a misfit's pursuit of revenge ends in a massacre in the gym of a Scottish primary school

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The small village of Dunblane, Scotland is grieving after 16 first graders and one teacher were murdered on Mar 13, 1996. The gunman, Thomas Watt Hamilton, was a loner and suspected pedophile. He killed himself after the massacre. Twelve other children and two teachers were injured.

Author: Corelli, Rae
Publisher: Rogers Publishing Ltd.
Publication Name: Maclean's
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0024-9262
Year: 1996
Crimes against, Scotland, Biography, Massacres, Mass murder, Elementary school students, Dunblane, Scotland, Hamilton, Thomas Watt

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