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THIRD DOUBLES--Preyer, N. Raleigh def. Roberts, Meiselman...
...opposition was as well organized as the supporters, and far more boisterous. Some 2,000 chanting, hymn-singing demonstrators, many of them bused into Raleigh by a group of fundamentalist churches, besieged wavering legislators. The anti-ERA crowd filled the air with choruses of Amazing Grace! and waved placards declaring ERA the PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE. Former U.S. Senator Sam Ervin Jr. added his country-lawyer counsel against the amendment. Said Ervin: "ERA would nullify any laws that make any distinction between men and women. When the good Lord created the earth, he didn't have the advice...
...abroad for human rights fights instead of helping American victims of political oppression." He also said, "At the same time Dershowitz was pointing his finger at the Soviet Union for the Scharansky trial, that very week he said not a word when Joan Little was denied an attorney in Raleigh, North Carolina." Your reporter said that I could not be reached for comment. I would, however, like to comment on Mr. Kunstler's baseless charges...
...Togetherness Families, who view the tour as an extended family picnic. Harriet Burley, from Elk River, Minn., even brought along eight-year-old daughter Lynn on her Raleigh Rampar bike...
Richard L. Nichols is a staff writer for the News and Observer. in Raleigh...