Word: repeals
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...agitation bore fruit at the ballot box. When a new CHUL was elected after the semester break, it voted unanimously to repeal the measure, and to set a 1.18-to-1 male-female ratio at Radcliffe. Anne L. Peretz, co-master of South House, said of the reversal, "I guess that people just don't like rocking the boat...
...simply irrelevant--and when it was coupled with measures to strengthen and cement the government doing the abridging, treasonable as well. In the same way, the complexity of Hutchinson's position on the Stamp Act--that thought it was an ill-conceived tax which people should petition Parliament to repeal, rejecting Parliament's authority to pass it struck at the foundations of the English government that protected all American freedoms--meant little to his opponents. They were engaged in resisting the power he defended, and what mattered to them was his argument's practical political effects--the extra strength...
...Last week's cheering, however, was a response to the outcome of the strangest-and perhaps one of the most significant-votes of Italy's postwar history. By a margin of 19,093,929 to 13,188,184 in a special referendum, Italians defeated an attempt to repeal the 3½-year-old law permitting divorce...
...turned from Italy's problems-social unrest, a 14.3% annual rate of inflation, and a possible $12 billion balance of payments deficit-while they stumped the country making fiery speeches for or against divorce. Former Premier Amintore Fanfani, boss of the Christian Democratic Party, led the fight for repeal, pleading with voters to save the "integrity of the family and future of our children." Communist Party Chief Enrico Berlinguer countered that divorce was "just and unexpendable...
Because the referendum touched directly on Roman Catholic Italy's traditional church-state conflict, the result was a severe defeat for the hierarchy and the Vatican. Bishops had told Catholics that they had a duty to "defend their model of the family"-a clear directive to repeal divorce. Most of the country's 190,000 priests and nuns campaigned vigorously for repeal; but many clerics defended divorce, and they were promptly disciplined by their superiors. After the balloting, Pope Paul VI expressed his "astonishment and pain" at the results. The referendum has already triggered new demands for revision...