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Rick Stanton, chief legislative aide to Gov. Edward J. King, said late last night it "would be premature" to say if the governor would sign the bill but added "nobody is going to be disappointed, if you get my drift...
...refuse loudly. The arguments against registration are sound--it is militarily foolish, coercive, and motivated in large part by President Carter's re-election campaign. Registration now will trim by only a handful of days the time it takes to induct Americans--on that ground alone even former Calif. Gov. Ronald Reagan opposes the plan. As a sign of "national solidarity" in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, draft registration is a part of Carter's dangerously confrontational stance of reviving the cold war. And as a part of the Carter "doctrine" of military intervention in the Persian...
...sole outlet for disposal of low-level radioactive waste suddenly shut down. Getting rid of the less-than-deadly waste, produced by area laboratories and hospitals at the rate of about 3500 30-gallon barrels each year, proved more than a slight headache for University officials when Washington Gov. Dixie Lee Ray closed the Hanford, Wash., dumping site in early October...
...legislation, cleared by the House's Committee on Bills yesterday and immediately engrossed, could clear the Senate by the end of the month, sources on Beacon Hill said yesterday. If passed and signed by Gov. Edward J. King, the law would permit Cambridge to force Harvard to follow city zoning codes...
Helicopters circle above the marching line--two carry "authorities," including N.H. Gov. Hugh Gallen, who shakes hands with police and townspeople all weekend and smiles benevolently at the protesters. The police, it is said, have trained for months, and been personally briefed by top state officials on the use of force. Late Saturday afternoon, a police dog without benefit of the training chases a television crew that has been allowed inside the fence and then bites a trooper on the leg. Gallen personally orders that the dog be removed...