Word: banned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alliance's more disaffected members as the result of a congressionally imposed arms embargo. However, he is expected to play his cards skillfully in the hope that Carter will be successful in his effort to persuade Congress to lift the 3½-year-old arms ban...
...United Presbyterians' Southeastern sister church decided that homosexuality "falls short of God's plan." It shied away from a stronger condemnation, though, and approved a long-range study. A bill before the upcoming June 9-16 assembly in Shreveport, La., would repudiate homosexual activity and ban "unrepentant homosexuals" both from lay offices and the clergy. > Episcopal Church (2,882,000 members). A commission is studying the issue in preparation for next year's General Convention. But the furor last year over the ordination of New York's Ellen Barrett as the church's first openly...
Much of the evidence used in the case against Truong and Humphrey, accused of passing classified documents to Communist Viet Nam, was developed after bugging devices and a hidden camera revealed the conspiracy. Even though Congress is now considering a bill to ban warrantless surveillance, the Justice Department wanted to pursue its case in the courts. If Truong and Humphrey could be convicted and their conviction sustained on appeal, U.S. Presidents could continue to order the surveillance of suspected foreign espionage agents without prior court approval...
...sign that the public is rebelling against these costly and cumbersome regulations is that they are being spoofed in that most popular graphic art form, the comic strips. Weidenbaum's walls are adorned with comics and editorial cartoons roasting everything from the ban against saccharin to the rising Matterhorn of forms to be filled out. In one strip, a weary Santa Claus complains about "all the environmental impact statements I gotta file for these flying reindeer...
...session's final day without action on a single major bill-but not without having played, once again, their recurring conflict with the capital city government over parking space for their cars. Idaho lawmakers, for their part, indulged in a six-week-long brouhaha over whether to ban the use of radar by highway police; the senate passed a bill prohibiting it on the ground that radar endangers heart patients with pacemakers, and the house set aside the bill only after the sponsor admitted that there was absolutely no hard evidence of such a risk...