Word: bans
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...speak, Congress is trying to repeal or limit a domestic violence gun ban," she said...
...referendum which garnered 54 percent of the Californian vote last November and has since been upheld by the California Supreme Court. He said he feels that the initiative, which would make racial preferences illegal, "would undermine the pattern of American adaptation to social change by introducing a complete ban on the use of race in college admissions...
...Martin Luther King Jr. School hosted Kennedy and the 1987 Nobel Laureate as part of a response to recent indications that the Clinton Administration is planning to lift the ban on high-tech weapons sales to Latin America...
...State Department, which approves overseas arms sales, wasn't persuaded. Voters did elect Latin American Presidents, but the democracies were fragile. The economies were improving, but more than 150 million people in the 20 countries covered by the arms ban still live in poverty. With no communist threat and the countries mostly at peace with one another, the last thing their Presidents needed was American attack jets at $24 million a copy. "We should be promoting arms control in the region first, not arms sales," says Bernard Aronson, the State Department's Assistant Secretary for Latin America during the Bush...
...time to turn on the pressure from Congress. Aerospace lobbyists helped circulate one letter for House members to sign and another for Senators, which urged then Secretary of State Warren Christopher to lift the arms-sales ban. The arms industry, which contributed more than $10.8 million during the 1996 campaign season, had no problem collecting signatures. The 78 Representatives and 38 Senators who signed the letters received more than $1 million from PACs controlled by Lockheed Martin, McDonnell Douglas and the major subcontractors for the F-16 and F/A-18. The million-dollar letters jolted Christopher. He had paid little attention...