Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...questions about its legal or moral ramifications. One question suggested by Graham: "Should the Government officially adopt a program dedicated to telling lies?" Another, clearly, is how the courts should cope with the problem of $1,000 monthly payments and occasional $35,000 relocation bills for witnesses who are forbidden to accept "improper inducements" for their testimony...
...fact, Leys makes a convincing case for his charge that Peking itself is "a murdered town, a disfigured ghost of what was once one of the most beautiful cities in the world." The fabulous imperial Forbidden City remains; so does the exquisitely harmonious Temple of Heaven -marred only by a huge red screen bearing the inevitable Mao poem. But the capital's ancient wall and magnificent gates have been torn down. Dozens of graceful arches have been destroyed. Whole neighborhoods have been bulldozed for broad, eerily empty avenues. The reasons once again have to do with the politics...
...1930s, set out on what seemed like a simple courtesy call on Mao's politically ambitious widow, Chiang Ch'ing. Accompanied by some aides from one of his commands, the elite 15,000-man palace guard, Wang strode into Mme. Mao's sumptuous villa in the Forbidden City - and promptly arrested her. A few hours before, he had taken into custody Party Vice Chairman Wang Hung-wen and two other Politburo figures - the other three members, along with Mme. Mao, of the celebrated Gang of Four...
...beneath Australia's remote, forbidding northern wilds is one-fifth of the world's known reserves of uranium, but they have been of no use to atomic-power plants. The government, fearful that mining would damage the Australian environment and that exports might encourage nuclear proliferation, has forbidden exports since 1973. Last week, however, Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser decided to permit mining companies to develop and export the mammoth lode...
...leader of the Sikhs in eastern India and comparable in status to Bhajan Backer Tohra, last week denounced Bhajan's claims. He and his council professed to be "shocked" at Bhajan's "fantastic theories." Yoga, Tantrism and the "sexual practices" taught by Bhajan, the council declared, are "forbidden and immoral...