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...Republicans or Independents are on the November ballot, so the Democratic nomination assures Kraus the Senate seat...
Five referenda will be on the ballot with the most attention going to an advisory statement calling for a nuclear arms moratorium, and a state constitutional amendment allowing the death penalty...
...recent conclusion of the drive in Massachusetts to place a referendum on the November ballot is a case in point. Earlier this year, proponents of an immediate moratorium on the production of nuclear weapons introduced a resolution in the state Senate to ask the voters if they thought "the president of the United States [should] propose to the Soviet Union that the United States and the Soviet Union adopt a mutual freeze on the testing, production and deployment of nuclear weapons...with verification safeguards satisfactory to both countries...
From these divergent views this week came the compromise wording which will appear on the Massachusetts ballot: the United States government should "work vigorously to negotiate a mutual nuclear weapons moratorium and reduction with appropriate verification with the Soviet Union and other nations" (emphasis added...
With a 5 p.m. Thursday deadline for getting the question on the ballot. McGee received a letter urging action, signed by 12 of the 14 members in Massachusetts' congressional delegation. Also on Monday, about 200 demonstrators came to the Statehouse to protest the delay...