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...Secord described his contra supply operation to William Casey, then director of the CIA, at three meetings during the period when any Government assistance to the Nicaraguan rebels was forbidden by Congress. One of those meetings was held in the White House. Casey approved of the supposedly private arms operation. In an interview with TIME last December, which turned out to be his final public comment on the affair before he was hospitalized for a brain tumor, Casey insisted, "We were barred from being involved with the contras, and we kept away from that." Secord said he doubted Casey knew...
...things that people enjoy--like ham and cheese sandwiches or BLTs (Judaism), hamburgers on Friday (Catholicism), or meat (Hindu)--the Church will disallow things that nobody like to eat anyway. Spinach, liver, tongue, brussel sprouts, and broccoli-cheese pasta are all on the list of foods that you are forbidden from eating as a member of the Church...
...apartheid had become so obsessively established that a white taxi driver refused to let a blind white girl and her colored nurse ride together in his cab; that white and colored children were forbidden to appear together in a Red Cross pageant; that Cabinet ministers refused to attend any receptions where blacks or coloreds might be present; that the Afrikaner poet Breyten Breytenbach was denied permission to bring his Vietnamese wife into the country to meet his parents; that a black workman could hold two wires for a white electrician but was not allowed to join them together...
...among inmates is forbidden in prisons, but the law does not always reflect reality. With AIDS on the rise and many prisoners in the high-risk group of intravenous drug users, the danger of an epidemic among convicts is real. The state of Vermont confronted the threat last month, when Governor Madeleine Kunin approved a policy of giving a condom to any prisoner who requested...
...arrested since the declaration of the state of emergency last June, some 8,000 are believed to remain in detention, including about 2,000 minors. Under the latest order it is illegal to participate in "any campaign, project or action aimed at accomplishing the release" of detainees. Among the forbidden acts, said Coetzee, are the signing of petitions, the sending of telegrams and even the wearing of political stickers or shirts bearing anti-detention slogans. Also prohibited are attendance at protest gatherings or any action demonstrating solidarity with those detained...