Word: exempt
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After more than two weeks of highly public debate and his own repeated promises to get tough, the President narrowed the possibilities to a two-step strategy. It centered on an effort to exempt the Muslim-dominated Bosnian government from the U.N. arms embargo, which requires Security Council approval, combined with limited air strikes in the interim, if necessary, to protect the Bosnian forces while they await arms, and to prod the Serbs toward serious negotiations. Along with stepped-up sanctions on Serbia, Washington hoped, a credible threat of force would obviate the need...
...Hunt has acquired a status he is surely less eager to embrace: the 59-year-old two-termer is the first Alabama Governor to be removed from office on a felony conviction. A jury decided Hunt was guilty of looting $200,000 for personal use from the very tax-exempt fund raised for his initial installation...
...begun to rise that the U.N. would show itself to be made of still sterner stuff. In Britain, one of the five permanent members of the Security Council, public sympathy was running in favor of more determined action, led by an impassioned plea from Lady Margaret Thatcher to exempt Bosnian Muslims from the arms embargo and allow them to acquire the means to defend themselves. "There is nothing moral or right about leaving a people defenseless," she fumed. "We cannot just let things go on like this. It is evil...
Apart from the Crimson's dubious reporting of the story, AALARM found the comment of Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett with which the article closed extremely ironic. Jewett claimed that a student would be exempt from College discipline for tearing down posters if the incident were "casual" and done "out of frustration." Such a policy, if adopted as a matter of precedent, would give license to every frustrated student at Harvard to tear down with impunity any poster which happened to annoy him, as long as he could claim that his action was sufficiently "casual...
...property owners, who could be identified by the SPOA stickers on their lapels, focused on Bill 2260. This bill targets an ordinance which prevents owners from living in their own condominiums if they were converted after August 10, 1979, by making all properties with six or fewer housing units, exempt from rent control...