Word: forbids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visit to Peking, writes Kissinger, "became the last normal diplomatic enterprise before Watergate engulfed us. "He returned to Peking nine months later, in November 1973. By then, a U.S. Congress that was increasingly challenging the authority of the President had voted to forbid all American military action in Indochina. With this prohibition, Kissinger notes, "our principal bargaining leverage was lost." As a result, an American proposal for a cease-fire in Cambodia was aborted-the Khmer Rouge had no need to negotiate for something that had already been handed to them by Congress-and Chou Enlai, who had agreed...
Last week's legislation represented the most stringent anti-bushing policies ever to win the approval of a House of Congress. Put forth by Helms and Sen. J. Bennett Johnson (D-La.), the rider to a justice Department allocation bill would forbid all courts from ordering busing of students living more than five miles or 15 minutes from a school. It would also apply retroactively to nullify much court-ordered busing around the nation...
...about 160 complaints filed against licensed doctors with the state licensing board were serious enough to warrant an investigation. But because the board is so hamstrung by insufficient funding it failed to investigate thoroughly all the cases that came to its attention. To make matters worse, excessive regulations effectively forbid the board from fully suspending physicians while they are under investigation; many who should be painting houses continue treating patients...
Kirkland's call for action is being echoed in Congress, but members are divided on what should be done. Senators Kennedy and Quayle defend their $4 billion jobs program bill as sufficiently different from the much criticized CETA program to make it worthwhile. Their bill would forbid local governments to use the federal funds to hire their own employees, such as policemen or firemen. Local businesses would also have a say in setting up job-training programs, thus ensuring that prospective employees were not trained in skills that were no longer in demand...
...this Administration to appear antiblack. If so, they should just let us know." Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver, who fumed that he would not allow the President to be perceived as a racist, argued that the Administration had to defuse the issue by proposing new legislation to forbid the practice that had been instituted the previous week. Reagan agreed. A spokesman said the proposed legislation would bar tax breaks for all racially biased schools, including Bob Jones University...