Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spurned, in concert with Britain and France, a Soviet proposal for a joint Big Four policy in the Mideast. Highlights of the Russian proposal, put forward last month to bring "peace and security" to the area: withdrawal of all foreign troops and liquidation of foreign bases, a ban on arms shipments, agreement by the "great powers," i.e., the West, to renounce "all attempts to involve these countries in military blocs." Among the reasons for the U.S. rejection: if the Middle East states feel themselves threatened, they have every right to join "with other nations in legitimate collective-security arrangements...
...city hall reporter, I know that you are always being told things in confidence, and if a reporter belongs to a group and learns things in confidence, he can't do a good job as a reporter." Editor Fred W. Stein of the Binghamton (N.Y.) Press extends the ban to employees beyond the newsroom: "A newspaper can be thrust into an embarrassing situation on a controversial issue by actions of one of its advertising men as well as by its staff writers or editors...
Questioned about the ban on spring practice, Yovicsin noted that Gettysburg did practice between winter and spring seasons, said, "there is no question about it, we will have hardships here . . . but with some luck and much co-operation from the boys we hope to be ready for the opening game...
...indignation aroused by the ban on Gates, editor of the Daily Worker, was further heightened by his receiving and accepting three bids to speak before student groups at Columbia University. The Columbia administration, unlike the presidents of the City, Hunter, Queens, Brooklyn, and the Staten Island Community Colleges, has not cancelled Gates' invitations...
...student senate of Queens College, drawing up a unanimous resolution condemning the ban, spearheaded the reaction to what is considered a serious threat to academic freedom. The senate criticized Garvey for delay in declaring on the ban and felt that he had "yielded to public pressure groups...