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...concessions in a deal that would lose it money. This is not the first time the industry has sat at the negotiating table with those concerned about public health. In the past, the tobacco companies have found ways to overcome restrictions like the Surgeon General's warnings and the ban on TV ads. The public should be cautious about this settlement. Health advocates must remember that the devil is in the details. ELIZABETH FORNER Grand Rapids, Mich...
...prized fish, threatening to put the Canadian fishermen out of work. That has stirred up some memories. "Canadians have learned bitter lessons from the unemployment that happened in Newfoundland when the cod fisheries disappeared," says TIME's Nicole Nolan in Toronto. Canadian fishermen suffered during a four year ban on all commercial cod fishing in the early nineties brought on by massive over-fishing, much of it done by large refrigerated European ships. "It had devastating consequences regionally," says Nolan. "The memory of that has great psychological power for Canadians." This time around, Nolan expects Canadians, and their political leaders...
...bill that would drive any man to drink. The communist-controlled Duma has handed Yeltsin a draft law that would put a tourniquet on religious freedom in Russia. The four "traditional" faiths: Russian Orthodoxy, Judaism, Buddhism and Islam, would remain comfortably entrenched. The less-established religions, however, face a ban on owning property, hosting foreign missionaries, and public worship, all privileges of official status. It all adds up as a cultural Great Wall, with the U.S. in the role of the barbarian. "The West is using religion as a means to influence the minds of the Russian people," said senior...
...ban on Tyson could be a bit like putting trade sanctions on China for human-rights abuses: if American companies can't enter the market, foreign competitors will. In an age of worldwide satellite broadcasts, Tyson can easily take his salable furies offshore, featuring himself in Thrillas from Manila for however long it pays. "We have to do what is best for the state of Nevada and for boxing," says commission chairman Elias Ghanem. It's a statement open to many interpretations...
...genre; he saw Alexandrov's Volga, Volga (1938) 100 times. And busy as he was in 1933, supervising the forced starvation of 7 million Ukrainians, Stalin took time out to see The Jolly Fellows. It was his enthusiasm that overruled the censors' original ban...