Word: bans
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...Alice Laurich of the Blessed Sacrament Church in Greensburg, Pa, on a judge's recent order to ban two women from the church for excessively loud praying. This is the second church that has banned the women...
Violence is on Wonder's mind--murder and mayhem, past and present, stateside and overseas. The swirling, soulful My Love Is with You ends with the chant "Ban the handgun." The anthemic yet prayerful title track, Conversation Peace, rages against ethnic cleansing, slavery and the Holocaust. "There's no chance of world salvation," sings Wonder, "'less the conversation's peace." And even the poppy, sing-along chorus of Take the Time Out--"Take the time out to love someone/ Reach your arms out and hug someone"--belies the fact that the verses are about lost souls caught...
...ordinance committee is expected toreconsider the proposed ban and alternativecompromises late next month...
Russell said she proposed the ban to get theBicycle Committee moving faster...
...rights group in attacking the Clinton Administration's tough anti-terrorism bill as unconstitutional.Acting CIA DirectorWilliam Studeman and other Administration officials countered that the legislation is necessary because Americans have become potential targets of international terrorism, such as the 1993World Trade Center bombing. The bill would expand wiretapping authority, ban fundraising by terrorist groups and speed deportation of immigrants suspected of terrorism. "Are we going to allow the government to deport aliens convicted of no crime, based on secret information?" asked Conyers. Sponsor Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said the bill strikes "a careful, rational balance" between preserving rights...