The book became a best-seller at a time when women's liberation was just beginning to find traction and made Ms. Brown into a national figure.

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Surveys show that even busy career women have increased, not decreased, their child care time, and despite their supposed liberation, today's women rate their happiness as no higher than their supposedly oppressed 1970s counterparts.

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At the same time, he is close to Communion and Liberation, a grass-roots Catholic movement that has played an important evangelizing role in Europe and in Latin America.

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The ANC is a political behemoth, regularly attracting over 60% of votes at election time, and its DNA continues to be that of a liberation party, the oldest one in Africa, celebrating its centenary next year.

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The Soviet Union was an important backer of Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization, and Syria, and other countries seen as antagonistic to Washington at the time.

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During this time, the military junta controlled Argentina and many priests, including Jesuits, supported the liberation theology movement.

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