Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the new law would allow travel abroad,East Germans pointed out it retains old provisionsgiving authorities the right to refuse passportsfor vague reasons...
...South African law and the proposed Israeli legislation both rely on such vague language. Both grant sweeping powers to the police, and strictly limit court supervision. Both allow search and seizure of property without warrants. And both bypass important elements of due process-in South Africa, suspects are required to give oral evidence with out a lawyer's assistance, while in Israel the normal rules of evidence would be bypassed...
...Relax technology-transfer regulations to allow sales of such items as personal computers and communications equipment that could spur autonomy...
...normally sort it out. Some Bush aides now admit privately that this practice confused the U.S. response to the Panamanian coup. The compartmentalization of information, says one senior Administration official, is "a destructive trait in any President. The information the President has is not shared with enough people to allow him to head off bad ideas...
Pyongyang has signed the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, but so far Kim's government has refused to fulfill its obligation to allow inspections. Washington has repeatedly asked Moscow to use its relationship with Kim to bring him around; U.S. officials say the Soviets promise to keep pushing Pyongyang to comply but reportedly add that their influence over the eccentric Kim is strictly limited...