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...victory there would be somewhat deceptive, however, since the resolution is not the same one defeated by House and Senate last summer. In order to attract more votes, the sponsors amended the bill to call for negotiated arms reductions as well as a freeze. Still, Congressman Edward Markey insists that the pristine freeze has not been turned to slush. The new language is a matter of "semantics," says the Massachusetts Democrat. "It's just fiddling. It's not significant." In fact, the loosely worded compromise is a measure of how entirely symbolic the idea of a nuclear "freeze...
...Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) has arranged for an airing of all three films on the congressional closed-circuit television network; the Biograph Theatre in Washington has been showing the films to sellout crowds, cancelling Hitchcock flicks to do it. And producer Joseph Papp plans to show the films at his public New York theatre...
...sports at Harvard. He has already made noticeable changes: The football guide for home games is now larger and includes two player profiles instead of one. In addition, the sports information office has for the first time printed up posters publicizing home games. Greenidge and assistant Ed Markey have also compiled a new weekly football statistics sheet that is distributed to the media after each game...
...Edward J. Markey (D-Mass) told a crowd of 400 at an institute of Politics nuclear conference Saturday night that the nuclear treeze "is the major challenge in our lifetimes...
...Markey's remarks came at the concluson of the two-day non-partisan conference which attracted students from 70 New England colleges. The congressman was one of the series of speakers, including Reagan Administration spokesmen and pro-freeze leaders, to address the conference...