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- NATION, Page 39American NotesARIZONAA Day to Honor A King
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- An organizer of civil rights boycotts during his life,
- Martin Luther King Jr. is now inspiring a raft of them, 22
- years after his death. Two weeks ago, when Arizona voters
- rejected the creation of a paid state holiday to honor King,
- the National Football League said it would begin scouting
- out-of-state locations to replace Phoenix as the site of the
- 1993 Super Bowl. Last week the list of potential boycotters
- grew longer with the addition of a heavyweight name: the
- National League of Cities announced that it would reconsider
- holding its 1991 convention in Phoenix.
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- To avert damage to the state economy, Arizona Governor Rose
- Mofford is suggesting that the legislature consider approving
- a King holiday. Backers are trying to organize another
- referendum; opponents vow they will start recall drives against
- legislators who vote pro-holiday. Meanwhile former Governor
- Evan Mecham, the man who rescinded the King holiday three years
- ago, has begun a boisterous fund-raising drive to keep the
- state calendar King-free.
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