Word: oregon
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...Schroeder of Colorado (she urged them to introduce a federal pro-choice statute), had a get-acquainted session with Democratic National Committee head Ronald Brown (she told him that Webster backlash will help the Democrats) and then capped off the day by conferring with Republican Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon (she pressed him about a pro-choice constitutional amendment, a dream of hers that other pro- choice groups privately consider a waste of time...
...some version of the Act for Better Child Care (ABC) before year's end were dashed two weeks ago by political wrangling over how to finance it. A family-leave bill is also stalled. Policymakers in some states are not waiting for Washington to act. Seven states, including Minnesota, Oregon and Rhode Island, have already adopted comprehensive parental-leave laws; ten others have passed maternity-leave bills...
...freshman from Lake Oswego, Oregon, was given the honor this week by a vote of Ivy League coaches. Cochran, who tallied one goal and two assists in his first season for Harvard, was also a second-team All-Ivy selection at midfield...
...that the abortion issue cuts evenly along partisan lines. Not all Democrats are pro-choice; not all Republicans are pro-life. Senator Bob Pack- wood (R--Oregon), for example, laments how his party has associated itself so strongly with anti-abortion views, leaving itself vulnerable to a shift in public opinion. "Unless our party changes its position," he told the New York Times this week, "we're going to lose more elections...
SMALL SACRIFICES (ABC, Nov. 12, 14, 9 p.m. EST). Farrah Fawcett, whose Charlie's Angels days are an ever fading memory, plays an Oregon mother accused of shooting her own children in another ripped-from-the-headlines mini-series...