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Question 1 on the ballot would remove present constitutional provisions preventing the use of state government revenue for private schools. Massachusetts laws are currently much stricter than federal constitutional codes, and this referendum would merely make state rules consistent with national policy. In a vacuum, the proposal would seem rational, since private schools in the Commonwealth often provide a better education, and since carefully constructed tax breaks could help poorer families give this opportunity to their children...
Before the state Supreme Court struck down the law, a disproportionately high number of poor and minority prisoners got the death sentence. It is unlikely that, if the provisions return, stricter justice will accompany it. Citizens should vote...
...wake of last week's denouement, daily newspapers across the country editorialized that Bendix's shakedown cruise pointed up the need for stricter federal regulation. Undoubtedly true, but the recommendation is unrealistic in the Age of Reagan. More practically, the unseemly Bendix affair should provoke a little reassessment on the part of American industry, a realization that "mass merger" is equivalent to corporate suicide Last month's theatrics show that today's mergers often have nothing to do with efficiency and productivity. They stem, instead, from a sense of institutional machismo that craves acquisition. America's business giants have...
...Governor's top political aide described the contest as "between the Chablis-and-Brie crowd and Joe Six-Pack." As smooth and glib a speaker as King is stilted and lumbering. Dukakis came across as a sensible liberal, supporting stricter handgun control and subsidized day care for working mothers. He promised "a government and statehouse you can be proud of," a barely veiled reference to scandals that have tainted King's administration. King's secretary of transportation was imprisoned after being convicted of bribery, and several other key aides were forced to resign under clouds...
Several administrators met yesterday to consider stricter supervision of the approximately 10 undergraduates who are employed and housed each summer to produce the Committee on Undergraduate Education's statistical review book, commonly known as the CUE Guide...