Word: ballots
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...four to four vote the council failed to pass a motion to place the Nuclear Free Cambridge proposal on the November ballot...
Another issue which city leaders spend a lot of time on is nuclear arms. The city was among the first to reject the federal government's civil defense plans, and to support the nuclear freeze. A proposal on the November ballot would prevent any nuclear weapons research from being conducted in the city...
...Catholic rights in Northern Ireland. It is not a question, as it was in Rhodesia [now Zimbabwe], of exchanging the bullet for the ballot. They have the ballot box, but they do not even take part in the Northern Ireland Assembly. What they do not like is that the ballot box does not give them the majority, and therefore some of them resort to the bullet and those few intimidate the others. Mind you, I understand the people of Northern Ireland; once you have got terrorism it paralyzes many people who would otherwise want to help. One must not judge...
...pound seizer" bill was introduced and only narrowly defeated in the state legislature. On other fronts a statewide referendum passed which will curb nuclear waste disposal and, some scientists fear biomedical research which generates such waste as a by product. A city referendum will appear on the November ballot to ban nuclear development and research in Cambridge...
...Charles Stark Draper Laboratories, which receives $116 million a year in nuclear weapons-related contracts, to cease work on defense systems. With the recent growth of the anti-nuclear movement, Nuclear Free Cambridge has finally received well over the 3800 signatures needed to put a referendum on the November ballot to curtail or eliminate defense work in Cambridge. The signatures have not yet been verified, but they are expected to clear the minimum when checked...