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...serious trouble. By March of 1979 ERA opponents had succeeded in getting five states-Tennessee, Kentucky, Idaho, Nebraska and South Dakota-to overturn their ratification votes. In December of 1981, in a long-awaited decision, U.S. District Court Judge Marion J. Callister ruled that states have the right to rescind passage of constitutional amendments. Moreover, he declared, Congress had violated the Constitution by granting the three-year extension of the deadline. Angry ERA supporters immediately appealed Callister's decision. They also launched a vigorous ERA Countdown campaign aimed at getting Oklahoma, North Carolina, Missouri, Illinois and Florida to pass...
...candidates for office in November. To make matters worse, two other Republican incumbents, Governors James Thompson of Illinois and Charles Thone of Nebraska, are facing unexpectedly tough re-election battles. Result: of the eight Republican-held Midwest governorships on this year's ballots, only one, in South Dakota, seems safe from a possible Democratic takeover...
...Hollywood seeking instant success as a songwriter, created a mythical group called the American Front Organization. He became obsessed with the film Taxi Driver, the story of a loner who stalks a presidential candidate; Foster was featured as a child prostitute. After the murder of Lennon, Hinckley visited the Dakota apartment building in New York City and stood with a pistol in his pocket in the place where the former Beatle was killed...
April 25--An open meeting attended by about 650 students ends in a vote to continue the five-day-old student strike, as general counsel to the University Daniel Steiner '54 demands that the Mass Hall occupation end. Meanwhile, South Dakota senator George S. McGovern overwhelmigly triumphs in the Massachusetts primary, winning all the state's 102 delegates...
...recommendations for action. Most of the suggestions, based on a $6 million federal study of the problem, involved stopgap efforts rather than cures. Except one. The committee wants further study of a proposal by the Army Corps of Engineers for huge canal systems that would import water from South Dakota, Missouri and Arkansas. The routes - all of which would be uphill - range in length from 376 miles to 1,135 miles. The cost- from $3.6 billion to $22.6 billion - currently places the canals in the realm of fantasy...