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Paving the way for a fall election battle, opponents of the state's recently passed Gay Rights Acts announced yesterday they had collected more than enough signatures to place a referendum calling for repeal of the landmark ordinance on the November ballot...
...indicates that it will repeal the Group AreasAct, which mandates segregation in neighborhoodsand towns...
...moves to repeal the Land Act, which gives thewhite minority 87 percent of the land...
...takes steps to repeal the PopulationRegistration Act, which classifies people by theirracial group...
...organization rarely enters local or state battles until it is summoned by one of its affiliates, and even then not before testing the waters. When it does jump in, it tends to do so with both feet. That was one important reason the N.R.A. lost its battle to repeal a Maryland law that set up a Governor-appointed committee to prohibit certain handguns. The gun lobby enraged Governor William Donald Schaefer, a supporter of the law, by distributing a broadsheet that accused him of "untruths" and "flip-flops." That made the popular Schaefer so angry that he became an active...