Word: bans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...served one's country abroad, each discharged soldier should have the right to bring home a submachine gun as "small recompense for the isolation, the boredom and the risk of overseas duty." So argues the National Rifle Association in a letter to drug czar William Bennett, who championed the ban on imported semiautomatic rifles. Bennett, the N.R.A. letter gratuitously points out, was neither isolated nor at risk during his draft-vulnerable years at the height of the Viet Nam War but instead was engaged in "scholarly pursuits" as a graduate student...
...conciliatory approach with the nation's striking miners, but the authorities in Tallinn signaled last week that they were growing impatient with Russian agitators who have been using labor protests to press their demands. The authorities invoked a resolution recently passed by the Supreme Soviet in Moscow to ban the strike and issued a call for "common sense." As Popular Front leader Veidemann notes, "Our greatest danger lies in creating two separate societies, as in Northern Ireland and Lebanon...
Lange will be best remembered in the U.S. for his government's decision to ban nuclear-armed or -powered ships from New Zealand's harbors, a move that caused a major rift with Washington and led to the suspension of New Zealand from the ANZUS alliance. That rupture seems unlikely to close soon. Palmer said he plans no changes in domestic or international policy...
...have nationalist groups in Latvia, but theterm is very broad," Irgens said. The effect ofthe party's proposed ban, he said, would depend onthe definition of nationalist...
...which had released a highly censored transcript of the conversation, asserted that disclosure of the entire conversation might hamper investigations of airline disasters. The Air Line Pilots Association warned that pilots might disable their voice recorders to prevent future "invasion of their privacy" but later added that legislation to ban the release of tapes might be proposed instead. What jittery airline passengers were supposed to make of the crew's chitchat, no one could...