Word: banning
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...Harvard's name and facilities to solicit Harvard students....It is not religious bias that has brought administrators at Boston University to expel it from campus and those at MIT to suspend its activities....The group cannot be autonomous and its parent group refuses to respect Harvard's ban on proselytism....We support Dean Epps' opposition to the group and hope Dean Jewett will deny the group recognition...
...House voted 318 to 99to lift the arms embargo on Bosnia, overriding objections that the unilateral action would inevitablydraw the U.S. into the Balkan war. The Clinton Administration opposes lifting the ban for that reason. "It will put Americans right in the middle of the hottest war today," Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.) said in today's debate. But a growing number of Republicans and Democrats believe that the U.S. must side with Bosnia's Muslim government against the Serbs.TIME correspondent J.F.O. McAllistersays the resolution will likely squeak through the Senate; if so, President Clinton could stop the action only...
...Clinton Administration will not join the court fight against Colorado's ban onlaws that would protect homosexuals from discrimination. Attorney General Janet Reno said she would not file an amicus brief supporting the elimination of the ban, as many civil and gay rights groups had urged, because "there was no federal program or statute involved." Disappointed activists accused the Justice Department of running away from an important civil rights issue for political reasons. While Reno denied politics had anything to do with her decision, TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen says that politics had to be a consideration. "We wouldn...
...ban may be equally ineffective at removingthe remaining 18 billboards. Earlier, Ackerleysuccessfully sued the town of Somerville tofederal court, forcing the town to pay $130,000 indamages, including all of the company's legalfees, Nickinello said...
Gays should not serve in Britain's military, says that country's High Court. In upholding the current ban, the court agreed with the view of the Ministry of Defense that changing the policy was a matter for Parliament, not the courts. But it's doubtful the legislature would reverse the ban, saysTIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. Britain's Conservative government supports the ban, saying it is necessary to maintain order and discipline in the ranks. More importantly for elected officials, Hillenbrand notes, is that there's not a large gay constituency in Britain. "The issue is nowhere near...