Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three generations have passed since the temperance crusaders who marched to such verses were at the peak of their power, and 45 years have gone by since repeal of the 18th Amendment. Yet vestiges of Prohibition are still visible in many state and local liquor laws, and they stir heated passions...
What made the cheer possible was a bitter struggle in the state legislature that gave local jurisdictions the right to legalize the sale of liquor by the drink. Before, North Carolinians were limited to beer, wine or whatever hard liquor they chose to "brown bag" (carry with them) when they went out on the town. With North Carolina's shift to local option, there are now only two states where sales of drinks at public places are banned outright. One is Oklahoma, where the temperance law is widely ignored. The other is Kansas, which ran into legal difficulties with...
...Kansas legislature passed a local-option bill last spring, and 15 of the 45 counties where the question was put on the ballot subsequently approved sales of drinks. But the Kansas Supreme Court threw out the law, ruling that the legislature had no business enacting it while an explicit prohibition against "open saloons" remained in the state constitution. Although it may take time for the legislators to clear up the confusion, Kansans will not go thirsty. As in many other states with restrictive liquor laws, almost anyone can get served at so-called private clubs. They are scarcely difficult...
...dock. It would not allow food, water and medicine to be sent to the freighter until last week, when France, Canada and the U.S. agreed to help resettle all aboard. The Malaysian government still will not permit the refugees stranded on the overcrowded, unsanitary vessel to be quartered ashore. Local officials want the Vietnamese to be transferred directly from the ship to an airport for flights to their new homes. The U.S., which has already admitted 150,000 refugees from Indochina, seeks a different solution. To help the Hai Hong homeless, the U.S. Attorney General approved an increase...
...Washington also released the text of one annex to the treaty, dealing with future diplomatic, cultural and economic relations between Israel and Egypt. As it turned out, the dry, legalistic documents contained references to the pursuit of a comprehensive peace in the Middle East, but no timetable for achieving local autonomy on the West Bank and in Gaza...