Word: bans
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...York City this week at the United Nations, where he will appeal to Bill Clinton to lift economic sanctions--imposed after the nuclear tests--and push the International Monetary Fund into mounting a rescue. As part of the trade-off, Clinton wants him to sign the nuclear test-ban treaty. This may help him get the money he urgently needs, but would anger fundamentalists at home who would see this as capitulation and surrender...
Mandela began his series of appearances yesterday when he accompanied Machel to a ceremony at the United Nations honoring her work researching the impact of war on children and fighting to ban anti-personnel mines in her native Mozambique...
...might not be a bad bet. It is boxing, after all, which is nearly as dirty a sport as politics. If Tyson was allowed to fight despite a rape conviction, how long can the commission ban him for mere biting and carrying on? Just put him in the ring and let Marv Albert call the fight...
First, reproductive choice. I support a woman's right to choose, in every instance. Pro-life forces, having failed to ban abortion outright, have turned to reducing choice bit-by-bit. They have already succeeded in limiting abortion access for poor women on Medicaid, women in the military and female federal employees...
...political vacuum only compounds the financial crisis: While the government is no longer making any effort to defend the plummeting ruble and frenzied bankers go after dollars to protect their personal fortunes, Chernomyrdin looks set to simply ban trading in foreign currencies. The reinstated prime minister hopes to straddle the mutually exclusive demands of the Communists, whom he aims to bring into government, and the IMF, which he plans to hit up for more billions. "Chernomyrdin has given no sign of having a coherent policy to stop the meltdown in Moscow," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge...