Word: repeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heroically resisting a bull-dozer driven by AFL-CIO President George Meany, carrying a slip of paper in his pocket which reads, "Krueger's vote." The commercial conveniently overlooks one crucial fact--Bob Krueger's mixed record on labor issues. For example, he voted against common situs picketing and repeal of right-to-work statutes, but supported some moderate reforms. The AFL-CIO gave him a 39 per cent rating last year...
Poor women have been able to continue using Medicaid funds to pay for their abortions since the first week of September, when the Massachusetts Organization for the Repeal of Anti-Abortion Laws (MORAL) got a temporary injunction on the Massachusetts bill, and MORAL is hopeful that it will be able to completely overturn the Doyle-Flynn measure in October...
Although the Administration wanted a total repeal of the embargo, Majority Leader Robert Byrd insisted that such a measure could not pass. Instead, he and George McGovern proposed a compromise. Deferring somewhat to the Greeks, the compromise called for an end to the embargo but kept some limits on arms sales to Turkey. The President would have to certify that any military or economic assistance to that country would contribute to peace in Cyprus. He would also have to report to Congress every 60 days on progress toward a settlement. When the Senate approved the measure...
Under the plan, a U.N. peacekeeping force of 5,000 troops and a U.N. "transition assistance group" (dubbed Untag) of about 1,000 civilians will help set up the machinery of independence. A special U.N. representative will work with an administrator-general, who will be charged with overseeing the repeal of discriminatory and restrictive laws, the release of political prisoners, and the repatriation of Namibian refugees from Angola...
...capital punishment? Do you drive a Volvo? (The distinction is hardly complete or infallible; plenty of businessmen and blue-collar workers detest Nixon.) Some have argued that Watergate was the effort (a successful one) by the New Class to repeal the results of the 1972 election. Well, crime is crime: Congress and the courts, not the New Class, brought Nixon down. But the argument has a metaphorical, symbolic appeal to those who feel Nixon was destroyed for who and what he was, not what...