Word: bans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...least 8000 East Germans swarmed into Czechoslovakia after a month-old travel ban was lifted on Wednesday, the official East German news agency ADN said. It is the only country East Germans can visit freely...
...campus was restrictedby the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1969, lastFebruary with the College's permission obtained aroom to hold a similar, one-time drill. By April,all military services nearly won a chance at fullreturn when the Undergraduate Council voted to urge the faculty to reconsider the ban...
This summer, Rep. Ronald Dellums (D-Calif.) called for a Pentagon investigation into the Israeli defense firm Tadiran. Dellums said he suspected that the firm had business ties with South Africa, despite an international ban. If these allegations proved true, Dellums said the Pentagon should void its multimillion-dollar defense contract with Tadiran...
...ban will have an unwelcome impact in several southern African nations. Their legal ivory trade has brought revenues used for conservation efforts and improvements in local communities. Zimbabwe, for example, carefully culls its herds without depleting them. Ivory from this culling brings in foreign exchange to Zimbabwe, which guards its elephants against poachers. But the delegates in Lausanne feared that any legal trade would be used as a cover by smugglers, as in the past. Angered by that stance, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mozambique and Burundi say they may defy the ban...
Enforcing the ban may not be as serious a problem as once thought. Consumer demand for ivory is plummeting, and with it the price of tusks. But even those who championed the ivory ban doubt that the elephant is out of peril. Said Susan Lieberman of the U.S. Humane Society: "This isn't the end, it's the beginning, but now the elephant has a cease-fire." Conservationists must continue to wage war against poachers and provide people living beside the game reserves with reasons for regarding the elephant as something more than a pest capable of trampling a season...