Word: bans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whatever its makeup, Pakistan's new government will be the first run by civilians since Zia came to power. Four months earlier, the country's 102 million people would not have dared to hope for such an outcome. When Zia announced elections last July, he almost certainly planned to ban political parties. Only when Zia died in the still unexplained crash of his C-130 transport on Aug. 17 did the prospect for party participation emerge...
...violence, Barend Strydom, 23, an Afrikaner ex-policeman, gunned down blacks on a street in downtown Pretoria, smiling as he killed six and injured 17. Strydom belonged to the neofascist Afrikaner Resistance Movement (A.W.B.), whose members openly whip up racial feelings. Public shock led the government to ban a still more radical group, the tiny so-called B.B.B., or White Liberation Movement, as a clear warning to the A.W.B. and other avowed right-wing groups that the government wants them to tone down their militancy...
...destructive consequences. Californians turned down a proposal to require doctors to report the identities of AIDS carriers. Voters in Utah and Colorado said no to measures that would have rolled back taxes and severely restricted the states' ability to raise new revenue. In Michigan, however, voters decisively approved a ban on state-funded abortions; Republican and Democratic Governors alike had vetoed similar bills 18 times...
...Governor Bob Kerrey did not need great strengths of his own to grab Karnes' Senate seat. Yet the charismatic Kerrey has charm and spontaneity that seem to transcend the issues. In a predominantly Republican state, Kerrey won while opposing SDI, aid to the contras and a constitutional amendment to ban abortions. Admitted Karnes: "He's a personality in this state, someone who turns up in People magazine. It's hard to run against a guy like that...
...North Carolina State, among others, have been hit with probation. Both the football and basketball programs at the University of Cincinnati were disciplined late last week for rules violations, and Southern Methodist University's football program is currently serving the N.C.A.A.'s "death penalty" -- a one-year total ban on competition -- because players took under-the-table money...