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...four-month moratorium prohibiting new social action and service groups from applying for admittance to Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) ended last Sunday...
...PBHA Officers' Committee voted to break the moratorium that was put into effect by last year's officers...
...bottle? Once we know it's possible, can we prevent the cloning of humans? Tuesday, President Clinton offered his own solution: cut off the money supply. Trying to stop "people from playing God," Clinton imposed a ban on federal funding for human cloning experiments and called for a voluntary moratorium on privately-funded research as well. "Each human life is unique, born of a miracle that reaches beyond laboratory science," he said. "I believe we must respect this profound gift and resist the temptation to replicate ourselves." For the most part, the American public agrees: 74 percent...
...future Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who hired Raines as a summer intern when Moynihan was appointed to the new post of urban-affairs adviser by Richard Nixon. At 20, Raines found himself briefing the President and most of his Cabinet on campus unrest two weeks before a nationwide antiwar moratorium. Raines' own experiences as a protester five months earlier may have provided his first taste of how inhospitable the "vital center" can be. He led a demonstration against both the militant students who occupied a university building and the administration' that decided to respond by calling in 400 policemen. Both...
...ANTONIO: Calling the death penalty "a haphazard maze of unfair practices," the American Bar Association has called for a moratorium on executions. The lawyers group plans to lobby Congress and state legislatures against the statutes that it feels are unfair. While the ABA did not come out against capital punishment, it says the administration of such laws is seriously flawed. Members want to see procedural safeguards set in place, such as providing competent counsel for all defendants and federal review of state cases for the 3,000-plus Americans on death row. The vote will find little support from conservative...