Word: outlawing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Each of the 14 papers represents a specific group such as women (Hysterla), gay people (Lavender Vision), law students (Outlaw), tenants (People's South End News), labor (Mass Strike) and others...
...resort of Aspen, Colo., is getting so spoiled by runaway commercialism that Author Hunter Thompson (Hell's Angels), who calls himself "a foul-mouthed outlaw journalist," figured that a shrill anti-progress campaign might just get him elected sheriff of Pitkin County. "Sod the streets, ban autos!" he cried. "Savagely harass land rapists!" By describing the job as "main pig," the shaved-skull exponent of "freak power" put off the conservative electorate, but the ecology issue is so big in Aspen that according to unofficial tabulations, Thompson lost by only 455 votes...
...Provence) were Parisian tourist attractions outranking the Louvre and Napoleon's tomb. During World War II, however, the bordellos disintegrated in quality-the Gestapo used them as intelligence sources-and in 1946, Marthe Richard, a municipal council member, led a successful campaign to outlaw all houses of prostitution in France. Exercising the eternal prerogative, she has since changed her mind...
Compared to some of these foreign countermeasures against urban guerrillas, the U.S. is still proceeding mildly, all the loose talk about "repression" notwithstanding. Certainly, given the present political climate in the U.S., no American President could have invoked wartime powers as easily as Trudeau did to summarily outlaw a group of militant dissidents. In the U.S., officials can move strongly against an urban guerrilla threat under the recently enacted Organized Crime Control Law; among other things
...important as outlaw record companies was the impact of radio and major recording studios moving into the South. By 1930 country music claimed a rabidly loyal following that traveled to political rallies as much to hear Jimmie Rodgers yodel as to see "The Kingfisher." Even today a rising Southern politician can't consider running for office without a popular country act-perhaps Porter Wagoner and his Po Boys or the Fruit Jar Drinkers-to introduce his speeches. In style and message, the two have become inseparable...