Word: forbids
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There are federal laws that forbid persons to detain a Government carrier pigeon or to use the likeness of Smokey Bear without permission, and bar seamen from seducing passengers on a steamship. Yet there is no national statute prohibiting bank extortion, and some espionage offenses are buried in the chapter on atomic energy. These are just a few of the peculiarities of federal criminal law, a hodgepodge of 3,000 statutes that have accumulated since the first days of the republic. As a whole, says Senate Judiciary Committee Special Counsel Kenneth Feinberg, the aide most responsible for promoting...
...house the refugees, but denies arming or training the rebels. British officials are preparing a proposal for a joint program of aid by the European Community, the U.S. and the United Nations. London fears that the Islamabad government might begin ordering the refugees back across the border and forbid the rebels to regroup and pick up new arms shipments in Pakistan...
...State Department aide: "You'll still be able to make a buck off the moon, if there's a buck to be made there." Though the treaty says no part of the moon can become the exclusive preserve of any single country or organization, it does not forbid mining or exploration there. It stipulates only that such activities come under a still undefined "international regime," presumably to be worked out at some future conference...
Most religious organizations oppose both Admiral Turner's view and the proposed Senate bill, since it does not entirely forbid use of clergymen. Noting that in many Third World nations missionaries "are already seen as agents of imperialism," the Rev. Dean Kelley, the religious-liberty director of the National Council of Churches, is afraid that "the whole profession can be tainted if it is known that they can be a front for intelligence agencies...
...with great fanfare. In response to growing popular resentment over corruption, he has taken steps to channel government money into showcase welfare projects, including a manpower training program to reduce the country's alarming dependence on foreign labor. To appease fundamentalist religious leaders, Fahd has tightened strictures that forbid women to work. To set an example to potential troublemakers, the regime beheaded 63 of the surviving terrorists of the Mecca siege...