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To: Snowshoe who wrote (10502)	11/15/2001 9:04:00 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 281500

Mavis Leno has been working on the Afghan women's issue for years: Leno's Wife Guests on 'Tonight Show' washingtonpost.com The Associated Press Thursday, October 4, 2001; 2:10 PM LOS ANGELES –– Mavis Leno carried her four-year fight for women's rights in Afghanistan to a big stage: husband Jay Leno's "The Tonight Show." Introduced by Leno as "the smartest person I've ever known in my life," Mavis Leno used her appearance Wednesday to discuss the plight of Afghan women and her hopes for their future. "Everything that constitutes human rights, but life itself, has been swept away from them by the Taliban," she said, referring to the ruling Afghan regime. As part of the Los Angeles-based Feminist Majority Foundation, Leno has been an outspoken critic of the Taliban and supporter of increased humanitarian aid to Afghan women since 1997. In her first "Tonight" appearance in two years, Leno said that until recently, Afghanistan was a moderate country that granted women equal rights in education and employment. "We're just talking 1996, not talking about the 1920s," she said. Then the Taliban "took over at the point of a gun" and put women in a situation she said "essentially amounts to house arrest." The Taliban, accused of sheltering Sept. 11 terrorism suspect Osama bin Laden, faces increasing international isolation. But Mavis Leno said there is still a burgeoning effort to establish a constitutional democracy there. "If this could happen, after five years of torment, these women could see the world again and come out and be free, and it would be one human rights situation out of all the endless list that would end happily," she said. ––– On the Net: Feminist Majority Foundation: feminist.org © 2001 The Associated Press