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Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee tomorrow to answer allegations of sexual harassment brought by University of Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill, a former assistant to Thomas a decade ago.The Evening Sun wants to know if you think the Senate should have voted on the confirmation Tuesday or do you agree that the Senate acted properly in delaying the vote?Call SUNDIAL, the Baltimore Sun's telephone information system, on a Touch-Tone phone.

The Israeli Cabinet yesterday approved that country's participation in the Mideast peace conference by a 16-3 vote. The government maintains it will not trade land for peace, as Palestinians and the United Nations demand.The Evening Sun wants to know if you think the United States should maintain pressure on Israel to stay at the peace table and to negotiate until a plan has been reached.Call SUNDIAL, the Baltimore Sun's telephone information system, on a Touch-Tone phone. The call is local, and answers will be registered between 10 a.m. and midnight.

The state Board of Education is considering requiring students to perform public service to qualify for graduation. Similar suggestions to acquaint young people with the value of public service have been debated in other forums; Congress has considered requiring national service of every person.Do you think Maryland should require students to perform public service before graduation?Please let us know your opinion by calling SUNDIAL. The call is local and must be made from a tone phone. The SUNDIAL number is 783-1800 or, in Anne Arundel County, 268-7736.

President Bush and his economic advisers maintain that the recession is over, this week citing an upward trend in the gross national product as hard evidence of recovery. Yet, many Americans sense that the recession is not over and that the economy has sunk back down in recent months.Do you believe the recession is over? And do you believe that the economy is better, worse or unchanged in the past six months?Please let us know your opinion by calling SUNDIAL, the $H telephone information service of The Baltimore Sun. The call is local and must be made from a Touch-Tone phone.

A new report on the quality of family life found that 47 percent of the children surveyed "wish their parents were stricter or more attentive." What about you? Are you strict enough with your children? Attentive enough?Call SUNDIAL, the Baltimore Sun's telephone information system, on a Touch-Tone phone. The call is local, and answers will be registered between 10 a.m. and midnight. The SUNDIAL phone number is 783-1800 or, in Anne Arundel County, 268-7736. When you reach SUNDIAL, enter category 4600 and wait for instructions.

As the 50th anniversary of Pearl Harbor approaches, there have been calls for Japan to apologize for its attack on the United States and for the U.S. to apologize for the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.The Evening Sun wants to know whether you think Japan should apologize, and whether the U.S. should apologize.Call SUNDIAL, the Baltimore Sun's telephone information system, on a Touch-Tone phone. The call is local, and answers will be registered between 10 a.m. and midnight. The SUNDIAL phone number is 783-1800 or, in Anne Arundel County, 268-7736.

The presidents of Russia, Ukraine and Byelorussia yesterday declared an end to the U.S.S.R. and Mikhail S. Gorbachev's government and in their place created a commonwealth open "to all the members of the former Soviet Union."The Evening Sun wants to know whether you think the U.S. should recognize this new commonwealth immediately.Call SUNDIAL, the Baltimore Sun's telephone information system, on a Touch-Tone phone. The call is local, and answers will be registered between 10 a.m. and midnight.

The United Nations' repeal of its 16-year-old resolution equating Zionism with racism is expected to encourage Israel to continue participating in the delicate Middle East peace talks, although Arab opponents of the repeal say it will impede peace efforts and inflame extremists on both sides.The Evening Sun wants to know whether you think this vote will help bring peace to the Middle East or will it hamper that effort?Call SUNDIAL, the Baltimore Sun's telephone information system, on a Touch-Tone phone.

President Bush arrives in Japan tomorrow on the fourth and final stop of a 12-day tour of the Asia-Pacific area aimed at lowering trade barriers to U.S. exports.The Evening Sun wants to know what you think about trade concessions. Should the United States demand trade concessions from the Japanese? And if they refuse, should we impose trade sanctions on Japanese imports?Call SUNDIAL, The Baltimore Sun's telephone information system, on a Touch-Tone phone. The call is local, and answers will be registered between 10 a.m. and midnight.

The General Assembly convenes today in Annapolis to begin its 1992 session with the chairman of the Budget and Taxation Committee, Sen. Laurence Levitan, D-Montgomery, calling for an increase in taxes to help the state balance the budget.Levitan's proposal specifically calls for increases in the sales tax, income tax and a nickel-a-gallon increase in the gasoline tax.The Evening Sun wants to know if you would support an increase in any of these taxes to help solve the budget crisis.Call SUNDIAL, the Baltimore Sun's telephone information system, on a Touch-Tone phone.