Word: banning
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...blood; however, I question the validity of the current methods of screening donors. Questions 5.6 and 5.7, in which women are asked if they have had sex in the last twelve months, even once, with a male who has had sex with another male since 1977, impose a flat ban on blood donation from gay men under the guise of protecting the public at large. The issue I have with this regulation is that it creates a false sense of security by supporting the notion that HIV infection and AIDS are exclusively "gay", and therefore, by protecting our blood supply...
...equality we must fight for it in all areas of life and not simply those in which it can be nicely packaged. For this reason I plan to file a formal discrimination complaint with the Administration against the American Red Cross and urge the University to impose the same ban it has imposed on the ROTC...
...drafters of the treaty for exceptions that would, in effect, allow the U.S. to use such mines in Korea for 19 more years and would exempt antipersonnel weapons when they are used to protect antitank mines. This last-ditch wiggling from Washington got nowhere, and 89 countries approved the ban, which is to be signed in Ottawa in December...
MOSCOW: Nobody said slowing down the arms race would be easy, not even in the aftermath of the Cold War. While President Clinton still faces a tough battle to get Senate approval for the nuclear test-ban treaty he signed a year ago ? and touted at the U.N. on Monday ? Al Gore is having better luck. He and his friend of four years, the Russian prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, signed an historic deal Tuesday halting the production of weapons-grade plutonium ? the next step, say negotiators, toward a less nuclear world...
Thanks for the story about President Clinton's announcement that the U.S. will join talks on a worldwide ban of land mines [WORLD, Sept. 1]. Land mines are adversely affecting the work of such international-aid agencies as Church World Service, CARE, American Friends Service Committee and others. Land mines have made it difficult to resettle refugees, to operate agricultural and animal-husbandry programs and to provide emergency relief in many areas of the world. Aid workers, as well as students and tourists, have been injured or killed, and equipment has been destroyed. The U.N. has estimated that a land...