Word: kehler
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...calling for a freeze is nearly identical to a resolution, backed mainly by Democrats, that narrowly failed a House vote (204-202) last August; approved instead was a softer, Administration-backed proposal. Aside from its general political implications, the letter offers ammunition to the freeze movement. Says Randall Kehler, national coordinator of the Freeze Campaign Clearinghouse in St. Louis: "The document is saying to people that this is a serious, moral, religious issue...
...booklet titled Call to Halt the Nuclear Arms Race, but it attracted scant attention. Only after November 1980, when voters in three state senate districts in Massachusetts approved a freeze resolution by 59% to 41%, did the proposal begin to draw wide support. "What that told us," says Randy Kehler, a former schoolteacher and antiwar activist, "was that Ronald Reagan's election was not necessarily synonymous with support of the nuclear-arms race." At last count, freeze resolutions had been passed in 257 town meetings in New England, 31 city councils, and six state legislatures...