Word: blacklisting
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...first decision involved John Robert Demos Jr., a convicted rapist serving a life term. Taking advantage of a rule that waived the $300 filing fee for paupers, Demos had sent 32 repetitive petitions to the court. The justices voted 6 to 3 to blacklist Demos, making future free appeals harder. In a second order, the court amended its rules to restrict "frivolous or malicious" petitions by the poor, who file more than 60% of the court's cases...
...requests for tourist visas if the age limit is lifted. "The Cubans are trying to embarrass us," grouses one official. The U.S. suspects that the dictator plans to repeat the 1980 Mariel boatlift, in which he exported malcontents and hardened criminals to southern Florida. "We've been on the blacklist because we don't allow free travel," responds a Havana policymaker. "Now we are doing what they demand, and still we're bad guys...
...week ago I would have said no, but now I would say that maybe there is an informal blacklist," ICA director David A. Ross said...
...wanted Terry Anderson. Fatefully, perhaps, the reporter advertised his availability the day before his capture, when he ventured into Beirut's southern suburbs to quiz Hizballah spiritual leader Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah. But Anderson's colleagues at the Associated Press believe he may have put himself on Hizballah's blacklist as far back as 1983, when he traveled to their stronghold in Baalbek to grill Shi'ite leaders about the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks...
...only other nations on the U.S. aid blacklist because of drugs are Iran, Afghanistan and Syria, none of which have received official American aid for years. The President claimed that the Bahamas, Colombia and Mexico have made progress against drugs, even though the Bahamas is widely known as a money- laundering and transshipment point for drug dealers, Colombia has made no visible headway against its notorious Medellin cartel and Mexico is the base of ever growing drug-smuggling traffic across the porous U.S. border...