Word: bans
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With a cease-fire declaration by the Irish Republican Army a distinct probability, two I.R.A. leaders were granted temporary visas to enter the United States. The action was a rare waiver of a U.S. ban against those linked to the IRA's terrorist acts. The U.S. is also reportedly considering a major aid package for Northern Ireland...
...more about it, they would have had to conduct experiments on human embryos and aborted fetal tissue. But federal funding for any such research was forbidden by the pro-life Administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush. Last year President Clinton quietly called for an end to his predecessors' ban and asked the National Institutes of Health to develop rules to guide the research. And since February an expert NIH advisory panel has been debating the details of what is sure to be one of the most controversial policies to come out of the Clinton Administration...
...harsh death-penalty provisions, nevertheless agreed to help return the bill to the House floor for further debate. At week's end members of both parties were discussing a deal that would create a sexual-predator task force, make minor revisions in the measure's assault-weapons ban, and slash more than 10% of the bill's $33 billion funding...
...this. Going into Thursday's showdown on crime, Democratic head counters thought they had a margin of one or two votes. Instead, nearly a fourth of all House Democrats balked. Most of them were rural lawmakers susceptible to the National Rifle Association, which opposed the bill's ban on 19 kinds of assault weapons and related models. Because the measure would also establish 50 new offenses punishable by the death penalty, which falls disproportionately on black defendants, 10 members of the Congressional Black Caucus voted against the bill...
What is most worth saving in the bill? The ban on assault weapons, which won't cost taxpayers a cent. The building of more prisons, which will cut the number of plea bargains and ensure that those who should remain behind bars do so. And most important, the hiring of 100,000 new cops...