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Nevertheless, sponsors of a U.S. -Soviet nuclear freeze initiative in California chose Ground Zero Week to file 750,000 petition signatures, more than twice the number necessary to put the proposal on November's ballot. The measure would require the Governor to call on the President and Congress to propose to the Soviets a mutual halt to all nuclear arms development. According to a new survey, if the election were held now, California voters would approve the freeze by a 2-to-l victory...
...less than 30 percent of the university population, 2621 people, cast their vote on the proposal, which--like the Kennedy-Hat-field resolution now before Congress and the freeze initiative on the state ballot in California this November--urges that the United States and the Soviet Union adopt a "mutual freeze on the testing, production, and deployment of nuclear weapons...
Galtieri has remained more committed to attempting to revive Argentina's crippled economy than to restoring democracy. As Commander in Chief of the army, a post he still holds along with the presidency and membership in the three-man junta, he once boasted that "the ballot boxes are well stored away and they will remain well stored away." Politicians, in Galtieri's view, often stand in the way of Argentina's ambitions. Says he: "We don't want to be a country. We want to be a great country. The Argentine problem is that there hasn...
...everything but clean windows," said Assistant City Clerk Joseph Connarton Tuesday night while carrying ballot boxes to the Cambridge Election Commission headquarters, where results of the special referendum on the Prop 2 1/2 override were being tabulated. "If this doesn't pass," he joked--at about 10p.m. when it was beginning to become clear that the override had won--"we may be doing that, too. "Connarton and most of his fellow city employees have been saved-at least for one year...
KING IS NOW vulnerable to the same challenges he fired so righteously at Dukakis last time. "I favor limiting taxation, a Proposition 13." King told viewers, but he opposed Proposition 2 1/2 when it reached the ballot and has added to the tax burden by imposing high fees. He harped on the increases in crime under the Dukakis administration, yet, the most recent federal statistics show that crime in Massachusetts is still going up and that Boston is still the most dangerous city in the nation...