Word: edward
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AFTER TWO YEARS of working behind the seenes to build support among the public and members of Congress, the Boston-based Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign has won a breakthrough in its tight to bring nuclear proliferation under control Last week. after intense lobbying by the Campaign Sens. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass) and Mark O. Hatfield (R-Ore) and Reps Edward Markey (D-Mass) and Silvio Conte (R-Mass) introduced resolution in their respective chambers calling for a freeze on the arms race...
...resolution was the brainchild of Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, who returned to Washington after the holiday recess last January deeply impressed with the burgeoning grass-roots movement against nuclear arms. Republican Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon agreed to join him as sponsor, and the two lawmakers spent several weeks lining up other supporters. The single-page resolution calls upon both Washington and Moscow to "pursue a complete halt to the nuclear arms race," asks for a bilateral ban on the "testing, production, and further deployment of nuclear warheads," and urges "major reductions" in stockpiled weapons...
Many college officials have questioned the ranking method that the author. Times Education Editor Edward B. Fiske, used; their criticisms drew extra attention to the book, which has already sold out its first printing of 15,000 copies...
...final version of Gov. Edward J. King's statewide workfare program will he announced this afternoon, six months after the controversial plan was first introduced...
...likely the left is to win. Supporters further warn that if the militant right-wingers gain power at the polls, they may trigger an even more brutal civil war of resistance. Underlying these arguments is a widespread liberal presumption that the rebels are-in the phrase of TV Actor Edward Asner's protest group, Medical Aid for El Salvador-"the most representative group in the country...