Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your June 27 story on Senator Kefauver's recent smutterings reminds me of Ogden Nash Senator Smoot (Republican Ut.) Is planning a ban on smut...
...world conference on disarmament that will emphasize the emotional Communist campaign to ban atomic weapons and "foreign military bases," and de-emphasize the cooler Western insistence on the need for proper safeguards and controls...
...China's Premier Chou Enlai, with one slight amendment. The principle of "noninterference in each other's internal affairs" was made more explicit by the addition of the phrase "for any reason of economic, political or ideological character." The communique supported the Soviet plan for a complete ban of atomic and thermonuclear weapons. But the key passage was the declaration that "the legitimate rights of the Chinese People's Republic in regard to Formosa" should be satisfied. Refusal to admit Red China to the U.N., added Bulganin and Nehru, was at the root of many troubles...
Resistance. The Punjabi government warned: "Shout your slogans in meetings if you want, but not in processions with swords at every waist." Tara Singh defied the ban and was arrested. But taking a leaf out of Gandhi's book, he instructed his followers to remain "nonviolent" and "to offer no provocation." Since then, all over th,e Punjab,, bearded Sikhs have stood in front of policemen (the favorite place: before the Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar), shouting their slogans and courting arrest. Already nearly 7,000 Sikhs have been jailed...
...seven years since Washington put a ban on the sale of war-useful materials to Iron Curtain countries, there has been many an attempt to evade the embargo, chiefly by foreign firms. Last week Washington revealed the first case involving a major U.S. firm: the Commerce Department had caught Willys-Overland Export Corp. in a deal that landed 100 of its jeeps behind the Iron Curtain...