Word: bans
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While the allies are left feeling whipsawed, the Serbs are only too . delighted to exploit the confusion. This they have achieved by doing everything to handicap the peacekeepers short of actually driving them out. On Dec. 11, Serbs announced a ban on U.N. military escorts of humanitarian convoys, thereby making it almost impossible to supply aid to Sarajevo and eastern Bosnia. They continued to block the Sarajevo airport and prevent deliveries of fuel to the U.N. mission. "The calculated attacks have never been as bad as now," said U.N. spokesman Paul Risley, "and our ability to carry out our peacekeeping...
Continuing the policies of his Republican predecessors, President Clinton banned the use of federal money to fund research on human embryos. The move came hours after a scientific advisory panel endorsed proposed guidelines that would have allowed scientists to create human embryos for study as long as they were destroyed within two weeks. The ban does not affect research on fetal tissue that has been discarded during an abortion...
...anticipating calling for a 100 percent ban," Pamela D. Anderson, the Tobacco Control Program's policy coordinator, said Monday. "We are trying to help the public without running into the same problems as Brookline...
Matt Garrett's Restaurant in Brookline has reported losses of more than $55,000 since the ban took effect on July...
...When you talk about a state-wide ban that's one thing," City Councillor Timothy J. Toomey said this week. "But when you start doing it community by community you place Cambridge restaurants at a disadvantage...