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Shannon's anger was directed at a House vote March 8 to cut $1.9 million from an account that pays for his consultants. The cut would hinder his office in obtaining expert witnesses for a variety of cases from nuclear power to hazardous waste...
...committed itself to appointing antiabortion justices. This year, the court agreed to hear the case of Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, in which the state of Missouri challenged the Roe decision. In 1986, the last time the Supreme Court considered the issue, it reaffirmed Roe by a 5-4 vote. But since then, Justice Lewis F. Powell, who voted with the majority, has been replaced by Justice Anthony Kennedy, whom many believe opposes...
...political importance of abortion should not be underestimated. According to one poll, 44 percent of Republicans oppose a ban on abortions. Opposition among Independents and Democrats who vote Republican is even stronger. Moreover, 78 percent of college-educated voters and 68 percent of Westerners oppose a ban. These are not groups that Republicans can afford to lose, especially since the GOP's electoral lock on the West gives it the presidency...
SOMEONE reading Joseph Palmore's editorial "Vote for a Strong Council" would get the impression that there is no good reason to vote against the current referendum on the election of the Undergraduate Council chair. Worse still, one might think that the opponents of the referendum are motivated by a perverse desire for a weak, undemocratic student government...
There may be, of course, good reasons to vote for this amendment. If a campus-wide vote would increase interest in the council, I might vote for the amendment on that ground alone. I believe, though, that such attention will last two weeks each year and focus not on the council, but on a few individual personalities...