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Five referenda will be on the ballot with the most attention going to an advisory statement calling for a nuclear arms moratorium, and a state constitutional amendment allowing the death penalty...
...recent conclusion of the drive in Massachusetts to place a referendum on the November ballot is a case in point. Earlier this year, proponents of an immediate moratorium on the production of nuclear weapons introduced a resolution in the state Senate to ask the voters if they thought "the president of the United States [should] propose to the Soviet Union that the United States and the Soviet Union adopt a mutual freeze on the testing, production and deployment of nuclear weapons...with verification safeguards satisfactory to both countries...
From these divergent views this week came the compromise wording which will appear on the Massachusetts ballot: the United States government should "work vigorously to negotiate a mutual nuclear weapons moratorium and reduction with appropriate verification with the Soviet Union and other nations" (emphasis added...
...immediate, bilateral moratorium is what the Wisconsin resolution's author supported, she very shrewdly kept it a secret. In approving this statement, the majority of the Massachusetts representatives were surely not repudiating the beliefs they so strongly held 11 weeks before. It is a statement general enough for the bellicose Rep. Royall H. Switzler--who accused freeze supporters of "carrying Russian Baggage"--to say he would support it because it would tell Reagan "he's doing a good...
...regulatory fight. Harvard's track record on questions like these is spotty; it has invariably sought to do the bare minimum it can to escape state environmental regulations. So rather than immediately getting into a new, knock-down, drag-out fight over technical minutiae. Harvard should ask for a moratorium on proceedings for the hearings. The communities which have successfully fought Harvard would certainly agree...