Word: rodino
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...reached. Says South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee: "After 17 years, the states ought to be given a chance to get out from under the act." Responds Senator Edward Kennedy, who along with Republican Senator Charles Mathias of Maryland and Democratic Congressman Peter Rodino of New Jersey is proposing a ten-year extension of the law: "The most successful civil rights law in history is in danger of falling victim to its own success...
...Peter W. Rodino Jr., Representative Tenth District, New Jersey Washington...
...strengthen the feeble Gun Control Act, passed after the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Now, in the wake of the shooting of President Reagan, the lobby is ready to ward off another wave of proposed gun laws. Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and Congressman Peter Rodino of New Jersey last week introduced a bill that would ban the import, manufacture and sale of cheap, easily concealable handguns, known as "Saturday night specials," and require a three-week wait between the purchase and pickup of any handgun. Not only does the gun lobby have its cross hairs...
...N.R.A.'s muscle will be tested again this year. The Kennedy-Rodino measure-which N.R.A. Executive John Acquilino calls "probably the most bullshit bill ever proposed"-faces the prospect of early defeat, but the N.R.A. is nevertheless gearing up for a big battle...
...Thurmond's best-laid plans can be stymied by his counterparts on the House Judiciary Committee, controlled, as before, by Democrats. There New Jersey's liberal Peter Rodino remains the chairman, and California's liberal Don Edwards heads a subcommittee on civil and constitutional rights. The House Judiciary Committee can block any right-wing measure that Thurmond manages to get through the Senate. Says Edwards: "I hope and think those Republicans over in the Senate will have the good judgment to do more important things than push emotionally charged issues that have no chance...