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...dismal track record. Although slightly revised, the bill in Question 3 is substantially the same as its earlier incarnations in Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Los Angeles County, and Suffolk County, N.Y.--where it was either rejected or struck down. In the case of Indianapolis, the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's ruling that Question 3's text is unconstitutional...
...TESTING, storage, transportation and disposal of several dangerous chemicals proposed in Question 1 is already law in Cambridge. In fact, the law has been upheld in Massachussetts' Supreme Judicial Court, and Arthur D. Little Company (ADL), the only user of the chemicals in question in Cambridge, has already removed them from the city. Nevertheless, while it only offers voters the opportunity to approve an existing law and will thus cause no action if passed, supporting the existing ban is still important. Strong approval of Question 1 in tommorrow's referendum will give the city council a mandate to develop more...
...current law was enacted in 1984 after the City Health and Hospitals Commissioner determined that ADL's contract work for the Defense Department posed a threat to public health. Especially since the law has been upheld in the courts, there can be no question about its legality. The ban is more than just technically acceptable, however. It was a justified and reasonable response to a grave hazard to the community. Cambridge, like any other community, has an obligation to control such activities in the public interest. That hazards result from defense-related research is simply no excuse for putting people...
...finding commission appointed by Marcos after Aquino's death. After ten months of investigations, the panel recommended that the defendants, all military men except for one civilian, be tried for conspiracy to kill Aquino. Ver's original Agrava-panel testimony was thrown out last August after the Supreme Court upheld an earlier decision that Ver's right not to incriminate himself had been violated...
Around the time the survey was being conducted, a highly publicized case involving charges by a junior faculty member and a graduate student that a professor in the government department harassed them drew widespread campus attention. And while their charges were upheld, many felt the treatment of the issue was insensitive and no one felt sure the punishment matched the crime...