THE GULF WAR: The Home Front : Legislation: State Assembly

The CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY, in a 57-to-3 vote, approved a resolution this week SUPPORTING PRESIDENT BUSH’S CONDUCT OF THE WAR against Iraq and honoring American troops in the Middle East. The only opposition to the resolution by Republican Assemblyman Gil Ferguson of Newport Beach--a retired Marine officer who served in three wars--came from liberal Democrats who objected to clauses that declared Bush had “exhausted every reasonable means” to get Iraq out of Kuwait without force. The Assembly also sent another war-related resolution to the Senate, a measure to condemn discrimination or harassment involving Arab-Americans.