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...Sen. Michael LoPresti, Jr., the Democrat who represents East Boston and Cambridge, moved to discharge the bill March 16, but the 17 votes his motion got was nine short of the two-thirds required to pass it, and didn't even add up to a simple majority. After the vote, LoPresti despaired of keeping rent control alive in any from at the state level. "I'm afraid it's dead here now," he warned, adding that cities wanting rent control "will have to come through with home-rule petitions now." And although Chairman Kelly himself suggested that his opposition...
...initial series of regulations appeared March 2 in the Federal Register, Roger N. Levy, staff assistant to Sen. James L. Buckley (R-N.Y.), who drafted the law, said yesterday...
With 92 per cent of Florida's precincts reporting, Carter had 35 per cent of the Democratic vote to Wallace's 32 per cent and Sen. Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) trailed with 22 per cent. For the Republicans, Ford was leading Reagan 53 to 47 per cent...
...really proud of what we did and I will wear my Birch Bayh button until November," Mark Roosevelt '77 said, reacting to the announcement of Sen. Bayh (D-Ind) that he is "suspending" his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination...
...Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) an original supporter of the bill who withdrew out of public pressure, has said that with a few amendments S-1 could be workable. Spokesmen for the American Civil Liberties Union claim that only with 2600 amendments would the bill be palatable. S-1 is so packed with repressive measures that it should not even be debated on the senate floor. The bill should be scrapped immediately and a new crime commission established to draw up a just criminal code...