Word: votes
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...Rhodesian commandos. Approved by Muzorewa, the raids have been widely interpreted by black African leaders as a sign that the bishop was tilting away from them and toward the white power bloc in southern Africa. Under the circumstances, there is a chance that the Organization of African Unity will vote against recognizing Muzorewa's regime at a heads-of-state summit next week...
After seven hours of intense debate, West Germany's Bundestag last week voted, 253 to 228, to abolish the statute of limitation on murder that would have made it impossible for the Federal Republic to prosecute newly uncovered Nazi war killers after Dec. 31. The vote was a triumph for Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Justice Minister Hans-Jochen Vogel, who had led the parliamentary fight to lift the 30-year time limit. Said Vogel: "After Auschwitz, there can be no statute of limitation for murder in Germany...
...came as a stunning shock to many last week when the U.S. Supreme Court, by a 5-to-4 vote, ruled that the public has no constitutional right under the "public trial" guarantee of the Sixth Amendment to attend criminal trials. The ruling undercuts a fundamental assumption of open democracy. It is also by far the court's sharpest blow to the press in a long string of such adverse rulings. At its narrowest, the decision means that pre-trial hearings could be closed when the judge finds a defendant's rights may be prejudiced. At its worst...
...April 30, the Senate passed the bill by a vote of 72 to 21, but in the House there remains controversy over both the merits of the bill itself and over several unfriendly floor amendments that have been accepted by the House...
Opponents of the bill have offered many amendments designed to cripple the bill by making it so unacceptable to its liberal supporters that they wull ultimately vote against it. Although these amendments were all defeated in the House Govern School of Education; and Peggy Stern, an officer of Harvard's Education for Action Program...