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Article: WHERE WOMEN ARE IN POWER
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 30, 1987
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CopyrightCopyright 1987 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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When Iceland floats into the American consciousness from time to
time, it's as the setting for some embarrassing East-West
confrontation. In 1972, there was the chess match between a boorish
Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. In 1986, there was the mismatch
between Mikhail Gorbachev and a confused Ronald Reagan.
But the image of this land as summit site has just been
overhauled. On April 26, Iceland became the international hotbed of
feminist politics. The homeland of 240,000 people is the scene of
the women's movement that roared.
In national elections, 10 percent of the voters cast their
ballots for The Women's Alliance, a feminist political party that
won six of the 63 seats in ...