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After a state legislative candidates’ forum in Wentworth, North Carolina, in October, the wife of the Republican challenger tore into the incumbent, Representative Bertha “B” Holt, after accusing Holt of “smiling and making fun of my husband” during his speech. The wife, Cathy Miller, said, “I’d like to pull every white hair out of that [deleted in original story] head.” Her husband said, “I think my wife is like any other female in a similar situation. She was defending her own.”
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In August Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia proposed extending the country’s caning policy to include women for the first time. If the policy becomes law women could be punished for such crimes as illegal immigration with the same nonscarring lashes problem schoolboys receive.
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Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
