Word: bans
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...going," said Finch, ruefully quoting an aide, "there are not going to be too many more people we can offend." He ticked off a list of the recently alienated: farmers (by the ban on DDT), the overweight (by the ban on cyclamates) and sportsmen (by the impounding of Lake Michigan coho salmon last spring). "The first problem we have," said Finch, "is 40,000 inflammable Santa Clauses. I guess HEW will be known as the department that killed Santa Claus...
During the course of the study, representatives of the Joint Chiefs of Staff could not provide a realistic enough contingency in which they would want to use biological weapons, but they argued nonetheless against the destruction of the germ stocks and the ban on offensive germ-warfare research. The Joint Chiefs contended, unsuccessfully, that the U.S. should preserve its option to "retaliate in kind" to germ attacks from the enemy-specifically, Russia...
Shakespeare told TIME that he was surprised at the extent of the blacklist, and promised its revision. Armies of the Night, he added, "won the Pulitzer Prize, and it should not be restricted." Nevertheless, the shelves will continue to ban some fiction, especially the overly sexy kind. "We are not a circulation library," says Deputy Director Henry Loomis. "We are in the business of supplying books which portray America in a fair and balanced way. Anyone who objects to this is probably in the wrong line of work...
Apparently, there is also the possibility that the NCAA will ban post-season competition for Yale teams. This will not bother the basketball team. but the swimming squad is again among the best of the nation, and it would definitely suffer from such an action...
...Nuclear Ban. According to the agreement, the Ryukyu Islands will revert to Japan in 1972. The U.S., however, will retain the right to maintain military bases there. These bases will be subject to the terms of the U.S.-Japanese Mutual Cooperation and Security Treaty, which forbids the U.S. to deploy nuclear weapons without the approval of the Japanese. The U.S. will remove its nuclear weapons from the island before Japan takes control. If the Viet Nam war is not ended by then, the U.S. reserved the option to ask Tokyo's permission to fly combat support missions from Okinawa...