Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what may be the most sweeping ruling to detect AIDS carriers adopted anywhere in the world. In addition to examining prostitutes and drug addicts, Bavaria will give AIDS tests to applicants for government jobs and foreigners coming from countries outside the European Community who seek residency permits. The new edict, moreover, empowers the Bavarian police to round up for examination anyone suspected of carrying the AIDS virus...
...Sheik Khalil Sharkiyeh, the chief Sunni Muslim clergyman of the Burj el-Barajneh camp. Because of acute food shortages, Sharkiyeh appealed to Muslim scholars for a fatwa, or religious ruling, that would allow starving residents to eat human flesh if that became necessary for survival. Though no such edict was forthcoming, an official of the Palestine Liberation Organization, whose forces are defending the camps, said last week that conditions for the 35,000 besieged Palestinians had grown desperate. "Our people in Burj el-Barajneh have already eaten all the cats and dogs they had," he said. "Nothing is left...
...past, an increase in international tension was always accompanied by increases in editorial censorship. Just after Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Mo., in 1946, Andrei Zhdanov issued his notorious edict subjecting Poet Anna Akhmatova and Writer Mikhail Zoshchenko to insulting criticism. Two years later Dmitri Shostakovich's music was denounced as unpatriotic...
...APPARENTLY Peretz--who often uses his magazine as a personal plaything, to settle scores and attack enemies--has appointed himself Defender of the Faith. He has taken it upon himself to issue an edict as to who is a real Jew and who is a pretender. What criteria he uses are obscure. (Even Israel would consider Bachrach to be a Jew.) Peretz never tells us why he believes that Bachrach is a) not Jewish and b) has pretended to be Jewish. And why he thinks his theological views should be relevant in a Congressional election is equally unclear...
...reserves three floors of rooms for abstainers, the Las Vegas Hilton one floor, with two more planned for later this year. Last month Denver's popular Cafe Giovanni banned puffing entirely in its dining room; so far only one group of patrons has walked out when informed of the edict. Tobacco devotees are finding the going tougher in more intimate settings as well. Ads for housemates and the personal columns routinely rebuff smokers. "People don't even have ashtrays in their homes anymore," moans Joyce Hernandez, a secretary in Montvale, N.J., who quit last year after attending a dinner party...