Word: permitting
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...less plausible rather than more so. To fend off scores or even hundreds of warheads, the U.S. needs not SDI but a network of ground-based interceptors at perhaps three to five sites. The ABM treaty allows only one site, but it could be amended to permit more. At the same time, the ban on testing and deployment of space- based systems should be strengthened, since those are what could undermine the purpose of the treaty and the viability of deterrence itself...
Some American blacks and liberals nonetheless denounced Bush's action as premature, an opinion also voiced by A.N.C. leader Nelson Mandela. The opponents contend, correctly, that South Africa is still far from multiracial democracy. Substantive negotiations on a new constitution that would permit blacks to vote and share in governing the country have not even begun. The critics argue that without the continued pressure of international sanctions, full equality will never come...
...Security Council denounced the incident as a violation of the cease-fire agreement that ended the gulf war, and George Bush thundered, "We can't permit this brutal bully ((Saddam Hussein)) to go back on this solemn agreement." In theory, the U.S. and its allies could resume air attacks if Saddam does not turn over the calutrons and any other bombmaking gear for destruction, as the cease-fire resolution commands. At minimum, they will continue the trade embargo that is strangling the Iraqi economy...
...beleaguered Boy Scouts last week. A federal judge ruled that the elite college, which has maintained a single-sex admissions policy since its founding in 1839, could continue to discriminate. "V.M.I. truly marches to the beat of a different drummer," concluded Judge Jackson L. Kiser, "and I will permit it to continue...
Today Israel uses a work-permit card system, running on U.S. equipment (the name of the supplier is an Israeli secret), to monitor the movement of Palestinians living in the occupied territories. Singapore, known for its strict regulation of everything from littering to drug peddling, has purchased more than $12 million worth of computer equipment from NEC, including a machine-readable ID-card system (with laser-engraved thumbprint) and an automated fingerprint-identification system...