Word: blacklisted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trysts had taken place in Hargis' office, at his farm in the Ozarks, even during his tours with the college choir, the "All-American Kids." Noebel was told that Hargis justified his homosexual acts by citing the Old Testament friendship between David and Jonathan and threatened to blacklist the youths for life if they talked...
...American Activities investigation of Hollywood. His testimony was rather evenhanded: he argued that the Communist Party should not be outlawed unless it was proved to be "an agent of a foreign power or in any way not a legitimate political party"; but he supported the studios' blacklist of supposed Communists and sympathizers...
...enforcing these and other rules, the government's Orthodox-controlled Ministry of Religious Affairs long ago set up an FBI-like system of files and informers to help figure out who can marry and who cannot. Despite persistent rumors, the ministry has continually denied that it keeps a blacklist. Then someone leaked to reporters the lists of unmarriageables that the ministry had distributed to rabbinical councils and marriage registrars across Israel. The lists include more than 10,000 names. Said Ha'aretz, Israel's leading daily: "It's a scandal which no democratic society can stomach...
...according to halakhic law." That will not satisfy the growing number of Israelis who want laws permitting civil marriage. Until now change has been impossible because, although only one-fifth of the populace consider themselves to be religious, the N.R.P. provides essential votes for the coalition government. But the blacklist scandal could shift the political realities during the Knesset session that opens next week...
Daly said yesterday that he did not know the total number of Harvard students affected by the ban. "I'm against the blacklist approach whether one student or 1500 are affected," Daly said...