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[Freddie Stubbs]

Haines Township repeals anti-war resolution

By Mike Joseph

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AARONSBURG - Facing an angry crowd that overflowed their meeting room, the elected leaders of a small Penns Valley municipality Thursday repealed an anti-war resolution that a week ago claimed international attention.

The Haines Township supervisors -- who four months ago voted 2-0 to adopt the resolution opposing a pre-emptive U.S. military strike against Iraq -- voted 3-0 Thursday night to rescind it.

The township residents said they were angry not so much because the resolution opposed Bush administration policy, but because the measure was adopted without asking township residents to discuss it yet stood as though it broadly represented sentiment.

"I object to that resolution," rural Aaronsburg resident Roger Guisewite told the supervisors, "and I would like to see it either removed or amended to say that that is the opinion of the three board members ... rather than the general public."

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