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Soweto (an acronym for southwest townships) remembered its grim anniversary last week in a solemn moratorium that its residents, with calculated irony, called "Black Christmas." There was a two-day general strike by African workers and packed church services fiercely punctuated with raised black-power salutes. Hymns of liberation like Senzenina (What Have We Done?) were sung about Azania-the name that black nationalists use for South Africa. Black sports and entertainment events were canceled. Even Soweto's 400 illegal drinking shebeens were closed. White and African police gathered in force outside the wire fences that border the township...
...battle between members of the Harvard faculty and the Cambridge City Council raged all summer and spring, until the council declared a six-month moratorium on the research within the city boundaries while a citizens' group investigated the health hazards it might pose...
...escalating DNA furor to badger his old foe, Harvard. He convened the city council in an effort to halt DNA research at the school. Said Velluci: "Something could crawl out of the laboratory, such as a Frankenstein." At the council's request, Harvard and M.I.T. agreed to a moratorium on P-3 research while an eight-member citizens' review board studied the issue. In February, the council overrode Velluci and passed an ordinance permitting recombinant DNA work to be resumed in Cambridge-under standards only slightly more strict than the NIH guidelines...
Mass Camp's bill #2558 would call for a temporary moratorium on prisons construction, and the formation of a citizens' non-vested-interest group of lawyers, doctors, sociologists and criminologists to make a through inspection of the system as it stands. The bill would give the crucial time and data we need for finding the most optimal organization, location, and construction of community-based rehabilitation centers. Charles W. Haynes '77 Chairman, PBH Prisons Committee
...justified as a bargaining chip now is a familiar element of America's nuclear arsenal. A more effective signal of restraint to the Soviets would be a decision not to proceed at all with the procurement of these new weapons systems, or at least to impose a temporary moratorium on procurement. The latter approach has long been advocated by Paul Warnke, Carter's choice for chief negotiator at the SALT talks...