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JX-7 Thursday, July 11, 1985 The Sun Workshops mark end of United Nations Women's Decade Eight Inland Empire women attend session egies for women to attain power. But the forum canceled movies scheduled to be shown Tuesday and Wednesday after boasting it would present the biggest feminist film festival in the world. Two Kenyan government censors assigned to review the films have not finished. reservations made by individuals, even those who paid in advance. For the next four days, delegates are offered more than 100 seminars a day on issues as diverse as circumcision and refugees in Africa, political prisoners in the Soviet Union, credit facilities for Latin American women and strat A DEPARTMENT STORE FOR MEN Eight Inland Empire people are among the United States delegation to the U.N.

World Conference on Women in Nairobi. Lois J. Carson, a San Bernardino Community College District trustee, is scheduled to moderate a panel on how women can alleviate hunger, and will be a panelist in a discussion on strategies for progress in the United Nations Decade for Women. Dr. Helen Thompson, vice president of academic administration at Loma Linda University, will represent the Seventh-day Adventist Church at the conference.

Also scheduled to attend are Wilmer Carter, businesswo can nation. Their voices mixed with the throb of tribal drums and the voices of uniformed school choirs which performed. Many women joined in a version of the famine relief song recorded by 45 U.S. pop stars: "We are the world. We are the women of the world.

We are the ones who do two thirds of the work." Kenya's minister of culture and social services, Kenneth Mati-ba, officially opened the series of workshops, all of which are sponsored by non-governmental organizations. The ministry organized the conference. Scores of delegates pushed and and shoved their way into capacity-filled galleries. Several women fainted in the jam-packed hall. In advance of the opening, Dame Nita told a news conference it was "the largest gathering of women on earth in our present century." The head of the Kenyan delegation, Eddah Gachukia, professor of literature at the University of Nairobi, appealed to delegates not to forget third world women.

She said these women till the fields, carry water and chop wood, serving as "the backbone of their countries." Scores of delegates worried about where they would spend the night after learning their hotel bookings were invalid. The government took over accommodations for the conference several months ago, and hotels announced they would not honor NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) Singing "We Are The Women Of The World," some 11,000 delegates Wednesday opened a series of workshops to mark the end of the United Nations Women's Decade. Convenor Dame Nita Barrow of Barbados warned delegates it was their "last chance" to press the United Nations to set up a permanent women's forum and "recognize us as an asset and not a The workshops, known as Forum '85, precede the U.N. World Conference on Women to be held here July 15-26. The conference, expected to draw delegations from 130 countries, marks the end of a decade dedicated by the world body to the concerns of women.

In Washington, the U.S. delegation to the conference dined with President Reagan Wednesday before leaving for Kenya. The president told them "legitimate women's concerns" would probably take a back seat to politics and propaganda, and said the Americans should fight to keep the conference "on track." Reagan, whose daughter Maureen heads the U.S. delegation, said the American representatives "firmly believe the business of this conference is women, not propaganda." In the past, conferences on women's issues have been divided by such issues as South Africa's legalized race discrimination, the Palestinian problem and worldwide distribution of resources. Maureen Reagan, meanwhile, used a State Department briefing on the conference to criticize Attorney General Edwin Meese III for withholding a $625,000 grant to a group that operates shelters for battered women because conservatives have claimed the group promotes lesbianism.

"That's just patently absurd," she said Tuesday. Dr. Helen Thompson represents Adventists BIG I TILL ABSOLUTELY EVERY SUIT SP0RH0ATS IN OUR ENTIRE STOCK man, Rialto Unified School District trustee and San Bernardino chapter president of the National Conference of Negro Women; Peggy Howard of Highland; and Jeannette Wilson, Virginia Hig-gins, Mildred and Cleveland Wright and Mildred Taylor, all of Riverside. As Forum '85 opened, women in bold-colored African robes, stark white Asian saris and sweat shirts and jeans mingled outside the Kenyatta International Conference Center in this east Afri- The Newspaper of Tomorrow 5071 is Here TODAY -AU QUALITY BRANDS rOU MUST BE SATISFIED FREE CONSULTATION NO OBLIGATION ir A R.MAN To subscribe to USA TODAY, call 889-9666, 825-1255 or (619) 243-3240 SIERRA AVI. VAllEY IN FONTANA 3SO-7255 AUDIO HEARING AID CENTER 1794 N.

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