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But ERA proponents were dealt a double blow in the Carolinas last week. In South Carolina the state legislature concluded its regular session without bringing the amendment to a vote. And in North Carolina, the state senate voted 27 to 23 to table the ERA, virtually eliminating any chance for...
The relative standing of the contenders for power in the Kremlin could be clarified at month's end when the Soviet leadership may convene for a Central Committee meeting devoted to the problems of the Soviet economy. According to official Soviet figures, 1982 got off to an inauspiciously slow...
At week's end, Nicaragua called for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council so that Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra could personally discuss what a Sandinista spokesman called the "ever increasing danger of a large-scale military intervention" by the U.S. It was not clear whether the...
Our responsibility to support and to strengthen this international institution was eloquently stated by President Roosevelt in his last speech before a joint session of Congress on March 1 1945. Roosevelt was making a plea of support for the United Nations Conference which was soon to convene in San Francisco...
On the first Tuesday in March, Vermont citizens convene in their towns, pretty much as New Englanders have done for three centuries, to govern themselves. These town meetings are exemplars of grass-roots democracy, but they rarely deal with issues of national, much less international, significance. This year was different...