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They were wrong. Last week the senate voted -- unanimously -- not to overturn the ban. What had changed? Citizens swamped lawmakers' offices with calls supporting the ban after Florio stumped the state, appealing to voters to voice their feelings about such weapons: pistols that whip off 10 shots or more from a single clip or the rapid-fire shotgun that drug dealers like to call "street sweepers...
...arguably the boycott or Arizona, for its refusal to accept Martin Luther King day as a national holiday, that caused a reversal in that state's policy. The boycott and resulting isolation of South Africa for its abhorrent racial policies contributed to that country's unwillingness to begin to overturn apartheid. It is certainly true that boycotts may hurt some people not responsible for the bad policy in the first place, and for that reason some may not wish to participate in them...
Aides have prepared a thick book of orders Clinton could put into effect with a stroke of the presidential pen. Some samples of their diversity: three would overturn bans on homosexuals in military service, discussion of abortion in % federally aided family-planning clinics, and admission into the U.S. of foreigners with the AIDS virus; another would cut the size of the White House staff; still another would require federal vehicles to run on natural gas or other nongasoline fuels. But should Clinton start pouring them out right away or wait until he has drafted, say, a budget and a health...
Since the Supreme Court reaffirmed the right to abortion last June, antiabortion forces eager to overturn Roe v. Wade have been watching the small island of Guam. In 1990 Guam enacted one of the nation's stiffest antiabortion laws, prohibiting all abortions except those necessary to save a pregnant woman's life or to prevent a "grave" threat to her health. But a federal court declared it unconstitutional last April, and last week the Supreme Court refused to hear Guam's appeal. The National Right to Life Committee called the decision "disappointing but unsurprising...
Meanwhile, in Colorado and Florida, the people voted to overturn laws prohibiting discrimination in private transactions...