
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, February 21, 1991                   TAG: 9102210377
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: NEW YORK                                LENGTH: Short

POLL: KEEP MOTHERS OF YOUNG OUT OF WAR ZONE

A majority of Americans feel women should participate in the fighting against Iraq, but 64 percent in an Associated Press poll reject sending mothers of young children to the war zone.

About three in five, or 61 percent, of the 1,007 adults polled on Feb. 13-17 said most men are better suited for combat than most women. Less than 1 percent said women are better suited, and 35 percent said men and women are equally suited.

While 56 percent said women should participate in the fighting, only 45 percent would be willing to have a woman from their family fight, compared with 74 percent willing to have a man from their family in Operation Desert Storm. - Associated Press

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