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Although the Massachusetts Senate yesterday rejected a motion to discharge the proposed Gay Rights Bill from committee--which would expedite the final vote--legislators said the record number of senators that approved the motion indicates support for the bill is strong.
The vote set a precedent for the Senate as motions to discharge a bill from a Senate committee rarely garner support, often receiving only a single vote from the sponsor of the discharge, legislators said.
"The vote is a definite message to Senate leaders that they must enforce the will of the majority of the Senate, and that is to decide on this matter," said State Sen. Royal L. Bolling's (D-Boston) Legislative Aide Anthony S. Rust. Bolling last week proposed to discharge the...
Some Kremlinologists speculated that Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev used the new appointment to signal that he was very much in charge. But the Soviet % leader also seemed anxious to reassure ordinary citizens that Yeltsin's discharge had been warranted. In a widely publicized speech to senior party leaders at week...
One striking example of the difference: in separate cases, Bork and Kennedy ! both ruled that the Navy could dismiss homosexuals from the service, but for very different reasons. Bork took the occasion to attack a long line of Supreme Court decisions reading into the Constitution a right to privacy. Kennedy...