Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should understand it to mean "romantic interest, boy-meets-girl, attractive girls, love stories-nothing immoral that would be out of place on the home screen." Onward. But Dodd was unsatisfied with learning that sex is a many-splendored thing. "We have heard such terms as the 'Kintner edict,' the 'Aubrey dictum' and what could be termed the 'Treyz [for Oliver, recently jettisoned ABC president] trend,' a trend, I might add, away from the high moral standards of practice set by each network," he said darkly. "A look at the history of those three...
This growth, he implied, has been fortunate. For the federal system, in situations, where a "sweeping generalized edict from the national government might be futile or even fatuous", "recognizes diversity and achieves unity" through such devices as granting federal aid to the states. "It stimulates the states to action--and to higher standards of action--by offering matching funds on specific occasions...
...promise "to transfer power to new and conscientious politicians as soon as our mission has been completed." But the junta plainly figured that this mission was going to take a long time to complete. Last week it issued a 24-article proclamation that effectively destroyed the Korean constitution. The edict dispensed with the National Assembly, abolished the civil judiciary system, threatened retroactive laws against counter-revolutionary acts...
Though international convention bars broadcasting from international waters, and the targeted countries always voice official protest, nothing much is done to halt the pirates. Reason: the pirate programs are too popular. Fortnight ago, Sweden issued an edict that it would confiscate Radio Nord's transmitting equipment if it came into Swedish waters. But authorities did not revoke the export permit that allows Nord to ferry its tapes out to the ship. Though Danish officials rail in print against Radio Mercur. the government's official newspaper, Aktuelt, sells the pirates its news service...
...absolution, not to support Muñoz' party in the future unless it changed its "anti-Catholic, antiChristian" philosophy, e.g., its opposition to religious instruction in public schools. When Doña Felisa Rincon de Gautier, the mayoress of San Juan, announced that she would defy his edict Father Maisonet told her she must do public penance before she could receive Communion. Realizing that the situation had got clearly out of hand, Archbishop Davis cabled moderation from Chicago. Said Davis: "No sanctions or penalties were ordered, and no one is to be refused the sacraments...