Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After three days of intense, sometimes emotional debate, the time had come to vote. Normally, delegates in the U.N. General Assembly cast their ballots electronically, pushing buttons at their desks and watching the results -- green for yes, red for no -- wink up instantly on two display boards overlooking the hall. This time, 18 Arab countries insisted on a voice vote as well. By a draw of lots, Britain went first, and abstained. Next came Uruguay, with a decisive si. Soon there was a oui and a da, then the Arabic assent na'am. As the U.N.'s six official languages...
...Sullivan says he was instrumental in the passage of a city ordinance that declared "a portion of the Cambridge Common to be a public forum for anyone who would like to display [holiday scenes]." He proposed the measure as a compromise after Councillor Thomas W. Danehy called on the Council to sponsor the Christian display...
...religious display is "city-sanctioned," Wolf says, "then the city is establishing a religion," which would violate a portion of the First Amendment...
...chief legal precedent governing religious displays on public property comes from a 1984 Supreme Court case, Lynch v. Donnelly, which ruled that the city of Pawtucket, R.I. could retain a holiday display containing Christmas symbols because it included sufficient room for secular expression...
Across the square at Toompea Castle, 264 deputies were assembled in the parliamentary chamber for an extraordinary session. After a day of sometimes passionate debate that was broadcast live over radio and television, the legislators, in an unprecedented display of national assertion, voted unanimously to reject a package of proposed constitutional changes that will be presented next week to the Supreme Soviet in Moscow...