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...would require only a simple majority rather than a three-fifths plurality to approve a constitutional amendment. Fasting and civil disobedience have become lobbying tactics. Last week 20 ardent ERA supporters chained themselves to the brass railing outside the senate chambers in Springfield, Ill. Said Mary Whitmore of Bellevue, Wash.: "These chains dramatize the economic slavery...
...Attorney General Elliot Richardson, 61, who quit rather than carry out order to fire Cox, practices law in Washington. Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus, 49, who also refused, is senior vice president of Weyerhaeuser Co. in Tacoma, Wash. Robert Bork, 55, third-ranking Justice Department official who did dismiss Cox, was appointed federal appeals court judge by President Reagan...
...Poulsbo, Wash...
...during the past 18 months she has been recycling occasional items from old columns. Landers asserts that the issues raised in the repeated items were still relevant. One such retread concerned a woman who-like a reader in 1967-was faced with that timeless quandary of whether to wash a banana after it had been peeled. "Millie in The Bronx," a fretful housewife whose letter ran in February, was rewhining the kvetch of "Irving's wife" 15 years earlier, namely, what to do with a husband who stopped off every night at his mother's for chopped herring...
Volunteers in Spokane, Wash., Muscatine, Iowa, and Washington led local tours of hypothetical nuclear devastation. Hundreds of black, helium-filled balloons were released in Houston and Chapel Hill, N.C., each balloon carrying a note about windswept nuclear fallout. In Belle Glade, Fla. (pop. 18,000), as in many communities, local churches sponsored a showing of The Last Epidemic, a film distributed by Physicians for Social Responsibility about nuclear war's medical horrors. Doctors from several hospitals described the same bleak scenario at a rally in Philadelphia...