51.   For the overall declaration all members voted aye except eight abstainers -- the Soviet bloc and South Africa.

52.   Four members did not vote.

53.   Four members did not vote, including Gingrich, two Democrats who are hospitalized, and Sam Johnson of Texas, a Republican whose plane to Washington was late.

54.   Four members voted to strike down the statute, again relying on the state Constitution.

55.   Group Health already has affiliated with Virginia Mason Medical Center, a private non-profit organization, and did so without allowing members to vote on the move.

56.   He said a nomination would be made in April, and then the four City Council members would vote on the nominee.

57.   He stopped short, however, of a blanket recommendation that party members vote for the Socialists and Communists.

58.   His union members will vote mostly for Schroeder, true to their anticonservative tradition, he said.

59.   History demonstrates that rank-and-file Assembly members will vote in favor of any bill sought by the city police unions, no matter how idiotic.

60.   House Speaker Dennis Hastert of Illinois was noticeably absent, refusing to call on members to vote a particular way and calling it it was a vote of conscience.