Word: outlaw
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...point. Last week Britain's Parliament was cracking down on the intolerance that native Britons practice daily against the swelling nonwhite minorities in their midst. Passed in the House of Commons by a vote of 261 to 249 was the second reading of a bill to outlaw discrimination "on the grounds of color, race, or ethnic or national origins" in hotels, restaurants, pubs, theaters, public housing and other places of public accommodation (though not in employment or private housing). Maximum penalty would be $280, and a good deal stricter ($2,800 and two years, or both) for written...
...divided to mount their own filibuster. Last week Dirksen, Mansfield and Katzenbach provided what they hoped would be an acceptable compromise. The anti-poll-tax amendment would be dropped. But a substitute clause would direct the Attorney General to file "forthwith" in Federal court a test case designed to outlaw any poll tax whose purpose or effect is to deny the right to vote in state or local elections. If the case is won and the decision upheld by the Supreme Court, that will be it. "We are of the opinion," crooned Ev Dirksen in his best basso profundo, "that...
...Bosch declared an amnesty for all exiles, permitted scores of far leftists to return from Cuba and Europe?"the better to watch them," he said. When Bosch refused to restrict the Communists' right to travel and even allowed trips to Cuba, Wessin y Wessin demanded that the President outlaw the Communist Party. Bosch refused and demanded Wessin y Wessin's resignation. Instead, in September 1963, the general staged the bloodless coup that ousted Bosch and sent him into exile in Puerto Rico. "As far as I'm concerned," says Wessin y Wessin, "Bosch is a Communist...
...Outlaw interstate sales of weapons to individuals...
Today, while the biggest war since Korea blazes in Southeast Asia, the U.N. stands mute and immobile. Red China, which the U.S. so far has managed to blackball from the U.N. as an international outlaw, once clamored to get in; now it sneers at the U.N. and threatens to set up a rival organization. Peking's ally, Indonesia, walked out trailing invective. Charles de Gaulle drops acid denunciations of what he calls "the Disunited Nations," and in a sense he is right. The General Assembly is now in adjournment until fall, having found itself unable to accomplish anything since...