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...symposium, which addressed controversies on Harvard's campus, Rondeau urged union supporters to write or call President Bok and ask the University to withdraw the charges of unfair labor practice that it has filed against the union. The University hopes to overturn the results of a May 17th election, in which support staff workers voted 1530-1486 in favor of HUCTW. Harvard claims that union organizers threatened and coerced staff on the day of the election...
...Socialists stand to win 37% in the new parliamentary vote. Under the current majority voting system, that translates to more than half of the 577 seats in the National Assembly. Accordingly, many old-line Socialists urged Mitterrand to capitalize on his momentum by holding a new vote that could overturn Chirac's 1986 parliamentary majority...
Some U.S. military planners saw the Denmark imbroglio as an example of the oft-heard U.S. charge that several prosperous alliance members are "getting a free ride" on defense. As in Denmark, opposition parties elsewhere have threatened to overturn longstanding defense arrangements if they are voted into power. The British Labor Party and the West German Social Democrats, for example, oppose U.S. nuclear weapons on their territory...
ALTHOUGH abortion will be a key stumbling block to courting the religious vote, it need not be insurmountable. Evangelicals have distrusted George Bush's sincerity on the issue, since he shifted rightward to curry their support in 1980. And Reagan has done little to overturn Roe v. Wade. Even considering the Republican's pro-life platform, as one politician said, the party's concern for human life begins at conception and ends at birth; yet, evengelicals purportedly want to save and help people throughout their lives...
...There was a lot of worried head scratching last week after Kennedy joined four other Justices in making a stunning announcement: next term the court will reconsider one of its major civil rights decisions. If it eventually decides to overturn the ruling, it would mark the first time in this century that the court has significantly narrowed its interpretation of a civil rights law. Even while cautioning that it was too soon to tell, court watchers were worried that conservative Justices had found in Kennedy the reliable fifth vote needed to forge a regular majority. "Is this the first decision...