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...referendums as varied and exotic as a Chinese menu. Many of the 22 items on the ballot could have been handled by a gutsy city council on a Wednesday evening. The electorate even had to pass judgment on whether each city supervisor could hire one aide who would be exempt from civil service requirements. The people said...
...order to gain tax-exempt status PUMA as an organization must refrain from any formal political lobbying efforts. Nevertheless, PUMA members have been involved in lobbying at the State House to decriminalize prostitution, often working through Prostitutes for Legislative Reform. Lewis and Weeks praise some legislators--State Reps. Barney Frank '61, Mel King and Elaine Noble--for being supportive. But their meetings with some other politicians have been frustrating. In one meeting at the State House, the legislature's leading anti-abortion crusader started spouting Biblical injunctions as soon as Lewis explained his purpose. Lewis hates that at least...
...Washington, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance announced that the U.S., which has observed the 1963 voluntary arms embargo, will extend that policy to cover all previously exempt police and military equipment, including spare parts and maintenance gear. In addition, said Vance, as evidence of "our national concern" over "the regrettable recent steps" taken by South Africa, the U.S. will withdraw the naval attache from its embassy in Pretoria and recall the commercial officer from its consulate in Johannesburg...
Clem favors conditional decontrol that would exempt four- to six-unit, owner-occupied buildings if the landlord makes specific improvements and convinces the board the increase does not remove the unit from the low or moderate income housing supply. He has not moved for this change on the council floor, Clem says, because that might give the appearance he is caving into the independents. So Clem says he will wait until after the results are in and consider the vote to be partly a referendum on the idea. Some critics argue that acting on the suggestion would have a much...
...proposal that the minimum wage be tied to raises in the average manufacturing wage rate, in effect a form of indexing for inflation. Moreover, 650,000 workers now covered by the law will be cut out as a result of an increase in the number of small businesses exempt from the law. At present, a store does not have to pay its workers the minimum wage if it has annual sales of less than $250,000; by the end of 1981, the limit will be $362,500. Though these small shop workers are not covered...