Word: voting
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...Bush- Gorbachev summit in Washington, and State Department officials believe it could come during the third Two-plus-Four conference in Paris next week. Moscow has sent a delegation to Washington to work out details of President Najibullah's future role, an acceptable election procedure and establishment of a vote-monitoring commission...
...would not allow. Media-minded impresario Joseph Papp of New York City's Public Theater wrote an op-ed open letter for the New York Times. The business-minded board of the Oregon Shakespearean Festival, the largest U.S. regional theater, held a private debate that led to a unanimous vote...
...game has been played for higher stakes since the Webster case last year, in which the court gave states wider latitude to restrict abortion. O'Connor's position was more decisive -- and uncomfortable -- than ever. She voted in favor of the Missouri statute under review (which forbids the use of state funds for abortions). But she balked at the opportunity to let history record that the Supreme Court's first woman was also the one who provided the crucial vote to end abortion rights. "There will be time enough to re-examine Roe," she wrote, "and to do so carefully...
...have said you would vote against the death penalty as a legislator, yet on the court you voted to uphold...
...When Chief Justice Earl Warren was on this court, in an opinion called Trop v. Dulles, he recognized that capital punishment was not cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment. But quite apart from what the Constitution may provide, if I were in a state legislature, I would vote against capital punishment. The U.S. is the only country among the Western democracies that still has it. I'm not sure that the taking of one life is justified by the taking of another. Also, contrary to what many people assume, capital punishment does not deter murder. There are about...