Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 14:04:17 -0500
From: CircInfoNe@aol.com
Subject: Action Alert, C.S. Monitor II

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, 19 DECEMBER 1994

On 19 Dec. an article by Colleen Lowe Morna was featured:  "African Women
Caught Between New Laws and Social Traditions."  Key paragraph:  "Customary
practices such as dowries, polygamy, arranged marriages, female genital
mutilation, and the dispossession of widows are widespread."

This is the second article of its kind in about two weeks.  The C.S. Monitor
has never addressed the issue of male genital mutilation.  Let's encourage
them to do so:  Reader's Write, One Norway St., Boston, MA 02115 Fax:  (617)
450-2317, E-mail (200 words max.): OPED@RACHEL.CSPS.COM.