Word: bans
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...study. When the Supreme Court last July ruled that the burning of the U.S. flag qualified as protected free speech under the First Amendment, Bush and his advisers organized a media event before the Iwo Jima memorial in Washington so the President could call for a constitutional amendment to ban flag desecration. Congress shied away from an amendment, but last week it passed a simple criminal law that would impose a jail term of up to one year on anyone who burned the flag. The White House indicated that Bush would let the law go on the books without...
WHEN Cesar Chavez, the leader of the United Farm Workers, spoke at Lowell and Adams House last week, he asked students to join a nationwide ban of California grapes and called on the dining halls to boycott them as well...
...Weapons Ban...
...asked City Solicitor Russell B. Higley to draw up a home-rule petition authorizing the city to ban semiautomatic weapons. A similar measure was recently adopted in Boston...
Dead men may tell no tales, but they can certainly cause trouble. Last week, as the Philippine government continued to block the return of the body of Ferdinand Marcos, public outrage was growing over its lack of compassion. Critics across the political spectrum have called President Corazon Aquino's ban "un-Filipino." The government claimed that if Imelda Marcos was allowed to bring her husband home, his funeral might touch off disturbances that could threaten the country's economic recovery. Aquino knows the power of a funeral: her political career was ignited when massive crowds turned...