Word: motions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four to four vote the council failed to pass a motion to place the Nuclear Free Cambridge proposal on the November ballot...
Last night's motion was the second attempt by opponents in a week to keep the question off the ballot. On Thursday lawyers for Cambridge's Charles Stark Draper Laboratories--a nuclear research firm which would be seriously affected by the measure--challenged the validity of petition signatures before the state ballot law commission. The commission which is separate from the state election panel continued hearings yesterday and is required to issue a ruling by Thursday...
...penalty for terrorist murderers. Last week the nation reached the climax of an emotional argument over the subject that divided the government, mobilized the clergy, aroused the police and dominated the press. After 6½ hours of debate, the House of Commons voted decisively (368 to 223) against a motion to restore capital punishment...
...Conservatives, with their new 144-seat majority in Parliament, to heed the sentiment for a crackdown on violent crime. The vote was "free," meaning that party discipline was not invoked to influence the decisions of individual members. While Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and eight Cabinet colleagues supported a motion calling for the hanging of terrorist killers, eight others voted against...
...What kind of society will we have if everyone gets the idea he can go on a hunger strike to get a wage increase?" Finally, after a Cabinet meeting devoted almost entirely to the issue, Begin agreed to meet a delegation of hunger strikers. When the Communists brought a motion of no confidence against the government, the issue sparked one of the most inflamed debates in the history of the Knesset. Health Minister Eliezer Shostak called Labor Opposition Backbencher Yossi Sarid "a loathsome abomination"; Sarid replied, "You are execrably revolting." After a recess, secret negotiations between the strikers and government...