Word: halt
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Since last June, three states have successfully overturned laws similar to the one the Massachusetts Legislature passed last week. Citing Title 19 of the Federal Code, which says that you cannot halt funding for medically necessary services for poor women, West Virginia, Illinois and last month New Jersey have restored Medicaid funding for poor women based on the unconstitutionality of their state actions. Weinburg says she is confident that MORAL will be able to win its case, which they took to court yesterday afternoon. Her biggest concern yesterday, however, was that they would be able to obtain a temporary restraining...
...terrorist activity. "If you talk, you die, and if you don't, you go to prison," says an Irish Catholic sister who now works in Salisbury; her mission station was burned to the ground three months ago. Nearly 80% of all Catholic missionary work has come to a halt. Says a Protestant missionary: "We are now caretakers, not evangelists. I make no bones about it. We're running scared...
...various formulations of U.S. foreign policy, Vance barely mentioned an issue that only two weeks ago was threatening to create an irreparable rift between Carter and Cuba's Fidel Castro. The issue was whether Cuba could have acted to halt the Katangese rebel invasion of Zaire's Shaba region. In his congressional appearance, Vance blamed the press Is for "overblown" concern with the issue-even though it was the Administration, and especially Carter, that had done most to fan interest and alarm over Cuba's role. When he delivered his policy address to the Jaycees, Vance...
Peking recalled its ambassador to Hanoi, then summarily closed three Vietnamese consulates in southern China. Earlier this month China's Vice Premier, Teng Hsiao-p'ing, declared a halt to aid to Viet Nam. "China's cash grants to Viet Nam already amount to $10 billion," he told a group of journalists from Thailand. "The only thing wrong is that we have given Viet Nam too much," he added, referring to the vast amounts of military aid given Hanoi during the war, including 80% of the Viet Cong's weapons...
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 in favor of the snail darter's right to life. Wrote Chief Justice Warren Burger: "The plain intent of Congress was to halt and reverse the trend toward extinction." In dissent, Justice Lewis Powell noted dryly that this meant vital federal projects would have to be canceled if they "threaten some endangered cockroach." Indeed, the decision could affect at least eleven other projects, including the proposed $690 million Dickey-Lincoln Dam in Maine, which would endanger the Furbish lousewort, a rare plant that resembles the snapdragon...