Word: petitioner
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A petition created by two graduate students to bridge differences between activists battling over abortion rights was rejected by Harvard pro-choice advocates Monday as an "anti-abortion document cloaked in neutral language."
Now is the time to stand up for these rights which seem to be slipping away before our very eyes. Defenders of choice should make every effort to attend the march this weekend. But the pro-choice movement need not start or end with the march on Washington. Massachusetts promises...
The provisions of this ordinance shall be severable in all respects. The City Council shall, in the form of a home rule petition if required, request the state legislature to enact all measures necessary or convenient for implementing these provisions.
It seemed a small thing, hardly ground for arrest. For two weeks a tiny group of Bulgarian environmentalists called Ecoglasnost manned a table in a Sofia park to gather signatures on a petition calling for public debate on two controversial river-diversion schemes. They had collected nearly 7,000 names...
Although Sofia's police were frightened enough to rough up Ecoglasnost, which has just 101 members, Bulgarians have no modern model for revolt. That, ironically, might make gradual change easier. Czechoslovakia has such a model -- 1968's Prague Spring -- and authorities there are taking no chances. Two weeks ago, they...