Word: bans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was a brief period of silence, and then Sheppard started a chant, "Stop Cam." The demonstrators filed through Ford's office on their way out of the building. One student carried on his shoulder a briefcase with the sticker "BAN...
Last week the transportation committee of the Wayne County board of supervisors recommended a ban on jumbo jets at Detroit's Metro Airport. To expand the ramp, terminal and baggage facilities, it was predicted, would cost an estimated $6,000,000-and there is simply no money available...
...rhetoric was important, however, to the safety of the Unionist government. So the government did little to discourage the extremist protestant fringe (i. e., Ian Paisley's own special church) which further fanned the rhetorical fires. Nor did it do anything to ban or de-emphasize the Ulster laws providing for the imprisonment without charge of probable traitors, or to de-emphasize the Ulster Auxiliary Police. These auxiliary policemen, known as "B-Specials," are, like the regular Royal Ulster Constabulary, armed. Furthermore, the B-Specials exclude Catholics and their official purpose is to help the regular police beat back those...
...been seeking a constitutional convention to overturn the Supreme Court's one-man one-vote decision. Yet the civil rights acts of 1964 and 1965, and last year's open housing bill, perhaps would not have passed without Dirksen's aid. Similarly, the 1963 nuclear test-ban treaty might not have cleared the Senate had not the minority leader, long a vocal opponent of the treaty, searched his mind and concluded that "my earlier opinions did not stand...
Second Enemy. NATO claims that 9,000,000 Americans have signed its petitions, and 21 Congressmen have drafted bills to ban subscription TV. So far, the proposed legislation has not stirred much interest on Capitol Hill. NATO's other resort is a suit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit contesting the authority of any FCC licensing...