Word: permitted
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...current year. This presumes a halving of the income tax surcharge to 5%, a proposal that Richard Nixon is understood to have accepted, if somewhat reluctantly. This would allow for funding urban programs at roughly their current levels-again dissatisfying to both liberals and conservatives. It would, however, permit an increase in the military budget of $4.9 billion (to $78.5 billion), which is less than the service chiefs and their partisans on Capitol Hill want. House Armed Services Chairman Mendel Rivers insists that defense spending will have to go up by still another few billion. On the first...
...prevent incursions into Israel. Now, declared the Beirut daily An Nahar, "Lebanon has entered the June 5 war." The government considered plans for a draft to bolster its 15,000-man army, but at the same time Lebanese Defense Minister Hussein Oweini reasserted that Lebanon would not knowingly permit the fedayeen to operate from its soil...
Acting college president S. I. Hayakawa announced over the weekend a ban on rallies in the central campus area, while setting aside the athletic field for rallies by permit. He said that police would be called only if classes are disrupted, but that some officers will be stationed inside several buildings...
...count was in, the government had suffered a stunning defeat. Nearly 100 of Costa e Silva's followers crossed party lines to vote with the opposition. By a margin of 216 to 141, the deputies quashed the government's motion to lift Alves' parliamentary immunity and permit his conviction for "publicly inciting animosity between the armed forces or between these and social class es or institutions." A handful of spectators in the galleries jumped to their feet cheering, then began to sing the national anthem. After a moment's hesitation, most of the deputies...
...interests of the nation." The act, the fifth of its kind in the last four years, gave Costa e Silva the right to close Congress, rule by decree, cancel the political rights of any person, declare a state of siege, dismiss public officials, waive writs of habeas corpus, and permit the seizure of assets of those who illegally enriched themselves...