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Some groups take exception to the questions' phrasing. Many representatives of pro-choice groups say Question 1 is confusingly worded, so that voters may not understand that its purpose is to let the state regulate or prohibit abortion. This question has also fanned a perennial argument to the point where some television stations have decided to limit or refuse advertising on any referendum question...
...sanctions ban all new investments and bank loans to South African companies and prohibit the importation of uranium, coal, textiles, iron, steel, ammunition and agricultural products produced in South Africa. The law also establishes an embargo on the export of oil and munitions to that nation...
...membership of Local 26 includes severalthousand Boston-area hotel and restaurantemployees in addition to the nearly 450 Harvardfood service workers. Harvard workers said strongsupport for Bozzotto among union members who workelsewhere would prohibit a change of leadership...
...November 4, Massachusetts voters will be presented with an anti-abortion referendum that, if passed, would allow the State Legislature of Massachusetts to regulate or prohibit abortion in any way not specifically prohibited by the Constitution of the United States...
...majorities in both houses of Congress, are a ban on new public or private loans, investments or extensions of credit and an embargo on the import of South African uranium, coal, textiles, iron and steel, arms, ammunition, military vehicles, agricultural products and Krugerrand gold coins. The legislation would also prohibit the export to South Africa of crude oil, petroleum products, munitions, nuclear-energy equipment and computers, and cut off direct air travel between the two countries...