Word: rescinded
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Though ERA lobbyists won a three-year extension of the original ratification deadline, which expired in 1979, they failed to profit by it. In fact, three states have voted to rescind their approval of the amendment, though such recisions are of questionable validity. Last year the movement suffered another blow with the election of Ronald Reagan, who claims to "support the E and the R, but not the A." Said Schlafly at a press conference last week: "ERA is a cadaver that we have to keep pushing back into the coffin...
...President met separately with Israeli Ambassador Ephraim Evron, who delivered a "strong appeal" from Begin to rescind the order holding up delivery of the F-16s. Reagan answered that the Israelis should have considered a diplomatic route for resolving their worries about the Iraqi reactor; but, as one aide reported, "the President reaffirmed our strong and deeply rooted relationship with Israel," and obliquely assured Evron that...
Sisitsky said there is not enough public support to rescind Proposition 2 1/2. "We need time and events to let it sink in and let the people feel the effects," he said, adding that pressure from cuts in police and fire protection would "force events...
...Steve K. Wollmer, an MTA spokesman, said yesterday, adding that the rally will focus on how the tax cuts caused by the passage of Proposition 2 1/2 will effect every state resident. "I expect tens of thousands" of people to attend the demonstration and demand that the State legislature rescind some of the cuts brought about by the Proposition," Wollmer said...
...Committee this week unanimously decided that it still wanted to send two student representatives to the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR). The South House vote--technically a motion of confidence for the House's CRR representatives--countered a trend begun by the Freshman Council and Adams House to rescind their CRR nominations after originally deciding to break the ten-year-long boycott of the disciplinary body. The South House Committee urged its CRR representatives to "work for the reform of CRR from within and without...