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...Mexican government reached a tentative accord with Indian peasant rebels on major reforms in southern Chiapas state. The government promised to redistribute illegal large landholdings to poor peasants, begin a huge public works program in Chiapas and further outlaw discrimination against Indians...
Rather than outlaw PGP and other such programs, a policy that would probably be unconstitutional, the Administration is taking a marketing approach. By using its purchasing power to lower the cost of Clipper technology, and by vigilantly enforcing restrictions against overseas sales of competing encryption systems, the government is trying to make it difficult for any alternative schemes to become widespread. If Clipper manages to establish itself as a market standard -- if, for example, it is built into almost every telephone, modem and fax machine sold -- people who buy a nonstandard system might find themselves with an untappable phone...
Last week, the government announced a bill in Parliament which would outlaw foreign words. The proposed law, which would effectively complete previous partial regulations, would ban the use of foreign words in public announcements, work contracts, advertising, and on radio and television. Sanctions for breaking the law would include fines and possible prison sentences...
...harassers: "If you harm this brother, it'll be the last one you ever harm." Heard out of context, the speech seemed to be an unprovoked threat. Once he was interpreted as anti- Semitic, Farrakhan reacted with invective that removed any doubt, labeling Judaism "a gutter religion," Israel "an outlaw state" and Hitler "a very great man" ("wickedly great," he later explained...
Though Cambridge has made no steps toward enacting a full ban, the Massachusetts State Senate is currently considering a bill that would outlaw smoking in restaurants statewide...