Word: forbiddenness
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...explicitly linked continued concessions to the Palestinian Authority's success in breaking the Islamists. He has also indefinitely sealed Israel's borders with the West Bank and Gaza Strip--a measure that costs Palestinians $1.2 million daily in lost earnings. With few exceptions, P.A. officials, including Arafat, were forbidden to travel into Israel or through it to get between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. "Arafat is now a prisoner in Gaza," says an Israeli Defense Ministry official. "He can't get to the West Bank even with a helicopter." Peres' most potent means of coercing Arafat...
Meanwhile, in the areas of the West Bank still under Israeli rule, the occupation authorities have launched a crackdown. Palestinian residents were forbidden to travel outside their hometowns. In the village of Burqa and the refugee camp of El Fawwar, where three of the four bombers lived, troops herded together every man and teenage boy and forced them to sit on the ground awaiting questioning. All male relatives of the bombers, down to and including first cousins, were detained for interrogation. The Israelis renewed an old and widely criticized practice of sealing the family homes of terrorists in preparation...
...weeks ago, Abdul-Rauf's behavior began to cause conflict with the Nuggets and with the league administration. Abdul-Rauf said that he would not stand for the national anthem because it represented "oppression" and "tyranny." Also, as a devout Muslim, he said that he was forbidden from paying homage to nationalistic symbols such as the U.S. flag...
Next week Adams travels to the U.S. for St. Patrick's Day celebrations. Last year he was invited to the White House, but this year his reception in Washington will be low-key. The Clinton Administration has forbidden him to raise funds. Until he has succeeded in leading his friends in the I.R.A. down the road to peace, Adams will remain--as Seamus Mallon suggests--quite isolated...
Investment in Burma is not PepsiCo's only offense. In 1994 Greenpeace reported that PepsiCo was shipping discarded plastic bottles from California to India--bottles with the "California Redemption Value" labels still visible. International trade in plastic wastes is forbidden by Indian law and international law. PepsiCo claims, however, that the bottles are all recycled and thus it is not waste. An Indian recycling firm does take the bottles and some are recycled, amidst working conditions far below US standards. But they admit that much of the plastic is nonrecyclable; the toxic byproducts of the process stay in India, while...