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...Dick Lamm, 34, began his political career in 1966 by winning an at-large seat in the Colorado state legislature. A year later he introduced one of the first laws in the nation to legalize abortion where fetal deformity or psychological hazard is likely to occur. Though the bill passed, he later came to believe it was too moderate and persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court to declare it unconstitutional. Lamm led the successful fight against holding the 1976 Winter Olympics in Colorado. Now he is the man to beat for Colorado's 1974 Democratic gubernatorial nomination...
RICHARD D. LAMM, 38, Colorado state legislator who is in the forefront of brash new band of growth critics. Led successful campaign against locating the 1976 Winter Olympics in Vail and Steamboat Springs, on ground that the Games would cost the taxpayers too much, lead to overdevelopment of trailer parks, second homes and industry and attract huge crowds of people - some of whom might settle in Colorado...
Representative Richard Lamm: "We are beginning to overcome a whole heritage of mindless Chamber of Commerce promotionalism...
...more rigorous theological interpretations of modern issues, but he uses his paper as a forum for argument rather than a platform. His list of contributing editors is a Who's Who cross section of North American Judaism, including such names as Conservative Historian Arthur Hertzberg, Orthodox Philosopher Norman Lamm and Novelist Elie Wiesel...
Barring Transients. To the argument that "abortion has always been forbidden by the church," Lamm replied that until the reign of Pope Sixtus V (1585-90), termination of pregnancy was permissible within 40 days of conception for a male fetus and 80 days for a female.* Sixtus banned all abortions, but was reversed in the year after his death by Gregory XIV, who declared abortion illegal only after the fetus quickens. Not until 1869, said Lamm, did Pius IX revert the church to the position of Sixtus V. Lamm urged Catholics to follow the lead of Boston's Richard...