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...referendums in this election limited to taxes. Increasingly, voters are resorting to ballot questions to vent their frustrations on a wide variety of issues. This year more than 200 referendums will appear on 38 state ballots. Georgia alone will have 36 constitutional amendments on its ballot. In addition, there will be an uncounted number of local ballot questions around the country, such as the votes in 45 counties in Kansas on whether restaurants may serve liquor by the drink. Among the most significant statewide referendums are these...
...prohibit smoking in most work areas', lounges, cafeterias, sports arenas, theaters and certain areas of bars and restaurants. The proposal has pitted the American Cancer Society and the California Medical Association against the cigarette companies, which fear that the restrictions would cause their sales to drop. The other ballot proposition would require the firing of public school teachers who happen to be practicing homosexuals. The proposal is backed by groups like the Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs' Association and the California Farm Bureau, but is opposed by an unusual coalition of civil liberties organizations and conservatives, including former Governor...
...Miami-area voters will cast ballots on a proposal in favor of homosexuals' rights, 17 months after Singer Anita Bryant led a noisy and successful campaign to defeat a similar referendum. This time, however, backers have dressed up the question as a "full-equality ordinance" that includes prohibitions of discrimination against pregnant women, veterans, students, Hispanics and the handicapped as well as homosexuals. The proposition's chances are rated fifty-fifty. Not so for a second issue on the Florida ballot, which would permit casino gambling on the state's economically troubled gold coast. Hotel owners have...
...come from a nation under Communist rule. The Cardinals insisted with one voice that they had selected their new leader without intending to set any political line, indeed without even taking time to weigh the ramifications. To be sure, the election came quickly, on the second day and eighth ballot of voting. Still, because of the implications for relations not only with Moscow but also with the powerful Italian Communist Party, few observers had thought that the normally cautious Cardinals would turn to a Communist country if they wanted to go outside Italy for a Pope...
That Sunday came to be known as the "Italian day." The lead candidates were Benelli, 57, who for a decade had virtually run the Vatican as Substitute Secretary of State, and Genoa's ultraconservative Giuseppe Siri, 72. After Sunday's first ballot had been completed, Siri quickly showed his strength among Curialists and other conservatives, gaining 46 of the necessary 75 votes on the second ballot. Benelli was second. Blocs of votes went to other Italians?Milan's Giovanni Colombo, the Curia's Sergio Pignedoli, Naples' Corrado Ursi?and scattered votes to other Italians and a few non-Italians...