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Re: Crowd size at abortion rights march

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From: M. Price
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 18:13
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In <9APR199207374575@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov> packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer) writes:

>In article <ian.702785731@asi1>, ian@Agranat.COM (Ian Douglas Agranat) writes...
>>At 4:00PM, Patricia Ireland (National NOW president) announced that 750,000 
>>signatures had been collected and counted thus far.  She emphasized that this 


>That's odd; I walked through and around crowds there for almost
>two hours and I didn't see any evidence whatsoever that signatures
>were being collected. If someone would put me in touch with NOW
>officials in Washington, I'd be glad to go into their offices and
>examine these alleged signatures.

     You're kidding! I saw at least 30 signature collectors in the
crowd, and at least ten of those directly asked me if I had signed in,
not to mention the tables outside the metro stations and the NOW reps
who boarded each individual bus and checked people in.
    BTW, it was Washington D.C., Charles, in case that is
what led to your apparent confusion.

                                       MP.
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Subject: Re: Crowd size at abortion rights march
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