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Keeping Dobson and other Christian-right leaders happy has become the central preoccupation of Republican lawmakers. In the House, the legislative agenda is crammed with "pro-family" votes aimed at Dobson's constituency. Last week alone, the House voted to ban federal support of needle exchanges for drug addicts, passed a pilot program that would give public school children vouchers to attend private schools, and withdrew an $18 billion appropriation for the International Monetary Fund in a dispute with the Clinton White House over an antiabortion provision in a separate bill. And there's more to come. In June...
...Senate, where lawmakers are usually more immune to pressure, the Christian right is proving its influence. Last week conservatives scored a victory when a bill designed to pay the overdue U.S. debt to the United Nations passed the Senate with an extraneous provision attached to it that would ban federal funding of family-planning organizations abroad that condone abortion as an option. But the most obvious nod to religious conservatives in the Senate involves the blockage of Clinton's nomination of James Hormel to be U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg. Hormel is standard ambassadorial material--a businessman, a philanthropist, a former...
Citing the club as a "major issue during an election year," Peterson said concerns about the existence of the GSA led to a March 1996 Salt Lake City school board ban on all non-curricular activities...
...surprising that the U.S. government refuses to ban weapons. In India our forefathers would not allow a child even to pick up a toy knife or gun in a shop or play cops and robbers. The idea was that seeds of violence should never enter a child's mind. KRISHNA RAMAN Chennai, India...
Marijuana is not a performance-inducing drug, according to the International Olympic Committee, but they?re going to ban it anyway. Stung by being forced to restore the gold medal to Canadian snowboarder Ross Rebagliati, who had been disqualified at Nagano after testing positive for the substance, the IOC today announced plans to tighten up its testing regulations to include the ?social drug.? Prince Alexandre de Merode of the IOC medical commission said the danger with marijuana was that ?it can give you the impression that you are indestructible.? No word on the IOC?s attitude toward footwear commercials that...