Word: states
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discussion, Dr. Sally Lunt, chairman of the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus who moderated the talk urged women interested in running for convention slots to get information on the process from their state party committees...
...same state held for House-wide parties. Students knew they were supposed to check I.D.s and buy temporary liquor licenses if they wanted to tap kegs, but few of them did. They maintained they could not break even on dances if they had to pay both a band and $50 for a one-night license. So they chanced the wrath of the Cambridge Police Department--it seemed a pretty safe bet. Harvard parties are almost always uneventful; inebriated students generally head back to their rooms rather than vandalize the city...
...open? The abortion issue thus forces a clarification of the nature of the individual and his social rights. Although we may feel morally constrained to protect the future child, the fetus does not have the right to force us to do so. In the traditional dichotomy of church and state, to restrict abortion is to legislate morality...
...Massachusetts the Doyle Bill would cut off state funds in the same manner as the Hyde Amendment. Formerly an adjunct to the budget it was passed and signed as a bill this year. Appealed by MORAL (the Massachusetts Organization for the Repeal of Abortion Laws), the bill is under injunction and pending review by the Federal District Court on the basis of a Supreme Court decision that all medically necessary services must be available to the poor. As of last May, hospitals are no longer required to perform abortions upon demand except in case of probable death to the mother...
...request of the U.S. State Department, the Dalai Lama de-emphasized politics in this visit to the United States, according to Jan Anderson, media coordinator for His Holiness in this country. Permission for his visit seemed to rest on the recent U.S. recognition of China and the U.S. did not want the sticky question of the status of Tibet to cloud developing Sino-American relations. In this first trip to America, the Dalai Lama said he came to "spread compassion, to teach, and to learn," and spoke in terms of humanity in general, rather than Tibet in particular...