Word: bans
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...YORK: Give us your poor, your hungry, your huddled masses ? and your child soldiers? A new report released by a top human rights group accuses the United States of "obstructionist behavior" in refusing to sign the global ban on land mines in Ottowa Thursday ? and in standing "virtually alone" in opposing a lesser-known ban on the use of children under 18 in the military...
...vote yesterday would allow Harvard Dining Services to serve grapes of any kind, effectively ending a 1992 ban on table grapes. A "no" vote would keep the fruit out of dining halls, unless HDS was able to secure a contract with an organization supported by the UFW, which is fighting for better wages and treatment for grape-pickers...
...Adams House senior who wished to remain anonymous said, "I voted yes because I don't think the ban has been effective in the [last] four or five years. The UFW ban has not been effective in 13 years. I read as much as possible on both sides...
...Land Mines Despite the 125 nations who signed today's global ban on land mines, there are still as many as 100 million such devices out there ? and the U.S. won't give them up. Full Story...
Until recently, most involved with the debate assumed that a vote for only UFW approved grapes would, from a practical standpoint, result in an effective ban on grapes, since only one grape grower in California--Nash-De Camp--has signed an agreement with the UFW, according to Mark Grossman, director of the UFW's press division and Cesar Chavez's press secretary from...