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...school board of Boston, like those of New York City, Washington and Chicago, had earlier forbidden it. Pittsburgh, too, is phasing it out, but only after a particularly fierce battle. Paddling a student, said Albert Fondy, president of the Pittsburgh Teachers Federation, is "a quick way to show disapproval, like the city giving me a parking ticket when I park illegally...
Enemy Conduit. Salisbury's first dispatches were long on description and short on insight, understandable for any reporter seeing a strange and previously forbidden place for the first time. He zeroed in on modern buildings and primroses in Pyongyang's parks, and marveled at the Mao-like everpresence of Premier Kim Il Sung, whom Salisbury expects to interview before his three-week visit is over...
Even with signing privileges, women are not allowed to use the club's bar, squash courts or library, and are forbidden from using the main dining hall during lunch...
Postponed Politics. To fight the threat of contamination, hospital visiting privileges were suspended in some parts of the country and a joint session of the federal and Serbian Parliaments was postponed. Foreign tourism fell off sharply. Kosovo was placed under a strict quarantine, and travel from the province was forbidden to all who had not been successfully immunized. When Vuko Dragasevic, Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare, tried to enter Macedonia from Kosovo, he was stopped at the border even though he had a vaccination certificate. He is an official in charge of the nationwide immunization program...
Judicial Control. The issue is particularly critical to a special rule of the game. A policeman or police agent is forbidden to entrap-that is, he may not put the idea of the crime into a person's head and induce him to act on it. A mere citizen, however, can suggest a criminal idea and later, if he decides to become an informer, give evidence against his coconspirators. Clearly, the moment when he came under police control is crucial...