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...Question 1: Should the Massachusetts Legislature be empowered to regulate or prohibit abortion?12% YES 84% NO .Question 2: Should the government give public funding to non-public schools? 24% YES 71% NO .Question 3: Should all drivers and passengers be required to wear safety belts while traveling in motor vehicles on public roads? 28% YES 67% NO .Whom would you choose to be the next governor of Massachusetts? 57% Dukakis 6% Kariotis .Whom would you choose to be Cambridge's next Congressman? 49% Kennedy 16% Abt Five percent of the undergraduate population was polled in a telephone survey conducted...
Advocates of Question 1 note that the proposal would not allow the legislature to prohibit abortion in cases in which the woman's life is in danger. That is the most narrow exemption one could conceive. Meanwhile, victims of rape and incest would be forced to carry their pregnancies to term. Question 1 is not a limited measure; it is a potentially sweeping assault on abortion rights in Massachusetts...
There is much more conflict on issues among the general-election candidates, although local media have taken less of an interest in the campaign. The two Independents, for example, favor Question 1 on the referendum slate, which if passed would permit the state to regulate or prohibit abortion. Barrett opposes...
When Congress voted sanctions against South Africa last month over President Reagan's veto, it left unresolved the thorny question of whether American firms would continue operating in the land of apartheid. While sanctions prohibit new American investments in South Africa, they do not affect the billions of dollars that U.S. companies have already invested in operations there. Thus the American business presence in South Africa has continued to be a focus for con-troversy, as well as a major public relations problem for many large U.S. companies. Last week, in a move that was of great symbolic importance even...
However, a query based on Referendum Question 1, which would authorize the state to regulate or prohibit abortion, was the only skirmish of the evening that had an indisputable winner. Kariotis said that while he favored a "ban on public funding for abortion," the government should "let people decide how they will conduct themselves...