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Article: First lady to give radio address on plight of Afghan women.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- November 16, 2001
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CRAWFORD, Texas _ First lady Laura Bush will deliver Saturday's weekly White House radio address to kick off an international campaign highlighting the Taliban's mistreatment of Afghan women.
The radio address, the first by a first lady, is the latest example of Laura Bush's increasingly public role in her husband's presidency.
She will urge worldwide condemnation of Taliban policies that block women from jobs and education. The Bush administration has latched onto the treatment of women as a dramatic way to cast the war on terrorism as a conflict between good and evil _ not a war against Islam _ and is deploying the first lady to dramatize the message. ...
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