Word: forbiddenness
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...lawsuit requests that the Bonanno organization be barred from recruiting new "soldiers" and that the 90 current members be forbidden to associate with one another. If the court action succeeds, Maloney predicts it will "deprive the Bonanno family of the very means and ends of its operation: money...
...continued to operate, however, while Army commanders and Weinberger's office engaged in protracted negotiations about its future. In mid-1983 the National Security Council approved a so-called charter that kept ISA around, but under strict control. The agents are currently said to be forbidden to travel outside the Washington area without specific permission from the Secretary of the Army...
Though Khomeini has forbidden public criticism of the arms deal, the explosive revelations have forced all factions in Tehran to talk and act tough. "To be perceived as nonrevolutionary in Iran is the kiss of death," says Iranian Expert Gary Sick. Almost overnight the softening face that Iran presented to the world reverted to a furious scowl. Khomeini reportedly was in his blackest mood in years as the annual Mecca pilgrimage neared. "Break the teeth of the Americans," he told the 150,000 Iranians who set out on the trip...
...Soviet constitution is an impressive document. It allows freedom of the press, of assembly and of religion. Discrimination based on sex, race or nationality is forbidden. Every citizen has the right to a job, to "rest and leisure," to free health care and education, to housing and even to such "cultural benefits" as television programs and books...
...detained in jail before being tried? Is prayer to be permitted in the public schools? Or a Christmas creche in the town square? What of the Reagan Administration's arranging military help for the Nicaraguan contras when Congress has forbidden it? If a man murders someone, may the state kill the killer in retribution? May government employees be forced to have their urine tested to search for the trace of drugs? May American Nazis march in an Illinois suburb that is home to Jewish survivors of the Holocaust? May a man be arrested for performing a homosexual...