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Conventions of the American Bar Association are usually about as exciting as, well, a gathering of lawyers. Not this time. Last week the A.B.A.'s House of Delegates voted 200 to 188 to rescind the organization's pro-choice position. The group, which had adopted the pro-choice stance only last February, passed a resolution stating that the issue is "extremely divisive" and that the A.B.A. would take no official stand...
Only a week after Governor Michael Dukakis signed a law extending the 5% sales tax to 594 service industries, legislators tried to rescind it. To make up for a resulting shortfall of over $250 million in the $13.4 billion budget, a 4% cut in most government services was put into effect. Although only 1.5% of taxpayers would be affected by limiting federal deductions to $10,000, it would devastate a state struggling with its largest tax hike ever...
...this cost-cutting era of collegiate sports, especially in financially-troubled Massachusetts, it is Harvard that is committed to maintaining its 19-team women's program. Not so at Oklahoma, which attempted to drop its women's basketball program this year before it was forced to rescind the decision because of public outcry. Not so at Rutgers and the University of Massachusetts, which dropped their women's lacrosse programs this year, sparking protest at the women's lacrosse Final Four three weeks ago in Princeton...
Independence, though, is a difficult road, as was clear last week when Lithuania received its most ominous warning yet from Moscow. Addressing the breakaway government, Mikhail Gorbachev charged the Lithuanians with "anticonstitutional actions." Rescind those decisions "within the next two days," he demanded, or the shipment of supplies to Lithuania would be stopped. Gorbachev was seemingly threatening to cut off oil, natural gas and coal supplies to the Baltic republic, which depends on the Soviet Union for most of its energy needs...
...Gorbachev gave the Lithuanians two days to rescind a law creating a volunteer force to guard the republic's ports and borders. At the same time, some 1,500 Lithuanian deserters from the Soviet army were ordered to return to their units by Saturday. Landsbergis responded by urging deserters to seek sanctuary in churches...