Hopes Slip for Women's Rights Vote

L.A. Timės/Washington Post Service,

WASHINGTON Prospects for a final Senate vote on the women's equal rights amendment before next Wednesday's congressional recess appeared to be fading yesterday.

The Senate completed a third day of desultory debate on the measure with a plea for passage from Sen. Marlow W. Cook of Kentucky, the chief Republican sponsor, and denials from the chief Democratic

sponsor, Birch Bayh of Indiana, that the amendment would require recognition of lesbian marriages, wipe out antiprostitution laws or require public authorities to take "men" and "women" signs off restroom doors.

But when debate was done, the Senate still had taken no votes on any of the dozen or more amendments to the proposed constitutional amendment, and Bayh accused Sam J. Ervin Jr., D-N.C., of trying to talk the bill to death.