Word: votes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Council set a special meeting Friday to consider Healy's contract, but the Motor Inn will not come up until the next regular meeting, on January 23. Both items had been postponed once and were due to come up Monday night, but the Council endorsed by voice vote Councillor Walter J. Sullivan Jr.'s motion to table all previously postponed items...
Human-rights advocates had looked to the Athens vote as a key test for the W.P.A. Although the Soviet delegation announced no specific personnel changes, it did call for "enlightened leadership in the psychiatric community in the U.S.S.R." That failed to appease the majority, which seemed unwilling to , restore the Soviets' membership. Then vice president-elect Felice Lieh Mak of Hong Kong suggested a compromise: making readmission contingent on a satisfactory W.P.A. visit to Soviet psychiatric facilities in the next year. Only then did the majority swing to the Soviet side. The vote was 291 to 45, with 19 abstentions...
...brunt of the ban will fall on the Far East. Hong Kong's traders have a 700-ton ivory stockpile that they will be unable to sell anywhere except within that colony. Japan, which has consumed about 40% of all ivory in recent years, abstained from the vote at Lausanne. Japanese officials say they intend to honor the prohibition...
...core, the A.N.C. position is equally nonnegotiable, calling for a swift transfer of state power from whites to blacks. The exiled organization stands unwaveringly for one-person, one-vote majority rule in a unitary state. Such an arrangement is "unfair" and unacceptable, says De Klerk. "Afrikaners won't agree to that until they are militarily defeated," says a senior diplomat in Pretoria, "and the balance of power in the country right now does not favor revolution...
...When it's just one vote away from overturningRoe v. Wade you're just impelled to act. IfTurnsdale v. Ragsdale gets decided andclinics start closing, people will stop and thinkbecause no one will preserve out choice for usunless...