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Danice Bordett and Nanette Rainone interview former nun and one of the Catsonville 9, Marjorie Melville, in WBAI's studio on February 10, 1971. Melville and her husband wrote a book, "Whose Heavan, Whose Earth" (1971) which describes their experience with the Guatemalan revolutionaries. Mrs. Melville was recently released from jail (she and her husband were jailed for burning draft records in protest of the Vietnam War, husband still in jail). The focus of this interview is on her activism in Guatemala (she arrived there in 1954 when the CIA overthrew the government). Self-contained.

23rd Annual International Women's Day Broadcast in this series. Translated interview (English on one stereo track Russian on the other, balance makes English louder and clearer over Russian on sets without speaker control) with Svetlana Ivanovna, a 42-year-old female manager of clothing factory with 3800 workers in Ukraine (Slavic ethnic republic of USSR). Her father killed in World War II, raised by unskilled office-worker mother. Went to evening session college. Had 2 kids before graduating. Husband helped with kids and studies. Describes conditions for women (85% of her personnel are female). Relations with trade union: for it to permit overtime, something virtually "super-natural" must occur. If she fails to live up to union contract, she gets bawled out at workers' meeting, which she must attend. If there is a health or safety violation, she is personally fined. This interview was conducted in Kiev at the offices of a women's magazine, Radianska Zhinka, whose editor is interviewed in AZ0443. The editor also invited a 70-year-old microbiologist to meet with Mandel that day, and her interview can be heard in recording AZ0462. Interview and announcements for the first 18 minutes, followed by about 10 minutes of phone calls, then 3 minutes of pitching for the KPFA fund drive marathon. The digitized reel box label calls this program "Soviet Autobiographies".

A discussion that challenges the myth that, thanks to our society's emphasis on youth and beauty, older people are uninterested in and incapable of enjoying sex, stressing the importance of touch and affection, the differences and lack of them in the sexuality of elders. The participants are Dr. Earl Marsh, gynecologist and psychiatrist and medical director of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco, and Mickey Apter, Ph.D candidate at the Institute. The program is hosted by KPFA's Peggy Stein.

Jane Fonda speaks at the University of California in Berkeley on January 29, 1973. She gives an anti-war speech at a rally for Pat Chenoweth, a soldier facing charges of mutiny in Vietnam. The tape is courtesy of the Chenoweth Defense Committee. She speaks about the Mekong Delta, Nixon's role, and the resilience and strength of the Vietnamese. Fonda reads a few excerpts from one of the chief negotiators of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam in Paris which talks about the need for solidarity and the importance of human value over gold. The recording starts with applause. Fonda is not introduced. Recorded at University of California, Berkeley.