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Under the guidelines, Pretoria will be able to regulate the movements of students to prevent fraternization with militants, and to close the schools to nonstudent groups. With new authority to disallow politically objectionable classroom materials, the department is certain to shut down, by police action if necessary, "people's education" classes, which had apparently helped provoke Botha's decree...
Opponents of the proposed law, who have called it an invasion of individual rights, have gotten their arguments backward. What right is more basic: to indulge in a personal pleasure that injures anyone in the vicinity or to breathe clean air? The proposal would disallow smoking only when other people are involuntarily affected--in workplaces employers and employees could still agree to set aside areas for smoking. In places where passersby have no choice but to breathe the air, it is hardly unreasonable to prohibit an activity that presents such a known hazard to the public health...
Only five days after the game The Stanford Daily published a fake Daily Californian telling of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) decision to disallow the play and award the same to Stanford. Luckily for the Stanford pranksters, the Californian's press broke down the night before the parody's publication, so the parody succeeded and cheerleaders wept in public...
...final HHS audit report--released last September--cites a number of areas in which Harvard accounting procedures failed. But the basic complaint is about alleged improper "cost transfers" between various federally funded projects. One and a half million dollars of the $1.7 million the auditors want to disallow belong to this category...
...spent by those companies to lobby Congress. Under the traditional "cost-plus" system of contracting, the Pentagon could be charged for expenses such as fuel for executive jets; but a Defense Department directive issued Oct. 22 forbids companies from freely adding extraneous costs to contracts. Weinberger promised, "We will disallow all such outrageous costs...