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Carter also has to build up his support among blue-collar ethnics and Catholics, who make up about a quarter of the electorate. Catholics traditionally vote Democratic, but many of them are suspicious of Carter, as was reflected in his poor primary showings in heavily Catholic Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey...
By a 5-to-4 vote the council demanded a three-month moratorium on the disputed research, which is already under way at M.I.T. The two schools are not legally bound to comply, and in any event, Harvard did not plan to open the new lab where the work will...
State Senator Jack H. Backman, who filed the first bill to ban handguns, said yesterday that he feels the alternative is illegal because it goes beyond the scope of the original petition, since it deals with prison terms for the use of handguns, not the banning of handguns.
In 1772, a Court of King's Bench decision in London in favor of a runaway slave, James Somerset, brought slavery to a virtual end in England. But in the Colonies, real moves against slavery have been few. Three years ago, a group of slaves in Massachusetts petitioned the...
The campaign degenerated into a mudslinging match, marked by incidents of vandalism, that confused rather than clarified the issue. But the vote could hardly have been more decisive. By a landslide margin of 2 to 1, Californians last week turned down Proposition 15, which might well have had the effect...