Word: outlaw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frustrated in its efforts to win the hostages' release, the U.S. continued its diplomatic efforts to isolate Iran as an outlaw state. Initially Carter was described by an aide as "disgusted but not surprised" by the failure of U.S. allies to condemn Iran publicly. But last week the Foreign Ministers of the nine nations of the European Community denounced the threat to try the hostages and appealed to Khomeini to free them. The French government did too, belatedly, after a public opinion poll disclosed that 64% of the respondents approved Carter's refusal to hand the Shah over...
...court rulings, which allow the government to continue funding school districts that discriminate on the basis of sex in employment. The Court's refusal to review these cases repudiated the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's attempt to use the 1972 amendments to the federal education law to outlaw sex discrimination...
...elderly white veteran of civil rights struggles couldn't believe her ears. She wanted to outlaw Nazi demonstrations, but the consensus at the workshop on "Fighting the New Right" was against her. And featured speaker James Farmer, black activist from the '60s, declared, "The Klan has a right to march and should be protected." After the meeting Farmer patiently argued with the woman and just as patiently reassured a young, blind Jewish man about relations between blacks and Jews. These days, Farmer, tall, stout and barrel-chested with an eyepatch and a sympathy for Moshe Dayan, often finds himself cast...
...hostages, the U.S. was increasingly counting on growing pressure from the international community and from Iran's own middle class to exert some influence on the religious leaders and the students. One goal of the American diplomatic strategy was to isolate Iran and make it appear as an irrational outlaw in world opinion. Iranian diplomats privately expressed their sense of embarrassment about the embassy seizure to their Arab colleagues, who in turn passed the message on to Washington. But the big question remained: would such pressures have any real impact on the enigmatic Khomeini?the only man who can order...
Wall Street is also safer today because, in the aftermath of the Crash, the Government moved to outlaw some of the abuses that permitted the 1929 bubble. Fifty years ago, a buyer had to put down only 10% of his own money to get a stock; he could use credit for the rest. Today, under a Federal Reserve rule, customers have to put up at least 50% of their own funds. The Fed can also slow bank credit to stop speculation from feeding a boom, a step it took last week. In addition, there was no watchdog Securities and Exchange...