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...referenda issues. Massachusetts voters decisively supported a nuclear weapons moratorium, endorsed controls on radioactive waste, made capital punishment constitutional and approved the state's bottle bill. They rejected a referendum calling for state aid to private schools...
...which the number of liberal Democrats elected across the country sent a message to the President that his policies have lost popular support. Unfortunately, the emphasis on Reaganomics have obscured another important issue. Nine states and 21 cities had actual ballot questions about whether there should be an immediate moratorium on the production and development of nuclear weapons the largest referendum in American history. The disarmament movements has gained a staggering amount of political strength nationwide in the last year, only to discover that its most dangerous and elusive loss turn out to be in the newsroom, not the Pentagon...
Question 5: Weapons M. Moratorium...
This non-binding referendum calls on "the President of the United States to work vigorously to negotiate a mutual nuclear weapons moratorium and reduction, with appropriate verification, with the Soviet Union and other nations...
...nationally related referendum. Question 5, asks the people to ask the President to "work vigorously to negotiate a mutual nuclear weapons moratorium and reduction with appropriate verification with the Soviet Union and other nations." The wording is so vague that it does not endorse the simplistic freeze, nor does it endorse President Reagan's bellicose rhetoric. Basically, it gauges public opposition to nuclear was. We hope most are opposed, and that they will vote...