Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...state is considering court action to prevent the Reagan administration from sending Massachusetts National Guardsmen to Central America...
...East Hazelwood High School in Missouri makes the otherwise black and white view of state-press relations somewhat more complicated, for in this instance the state was both owner and editor. The Supreme Court in a 5-3 decision affirmed the right of the principal of the school to prevent the publication of two stories in the school's student newspaper, the Spectrum. The principal felt that the articles concerning teen-age pregnancy and divorce threatened the privacy rights of students quoted in the articles, and he pulled them from the paper...
...distinction from earlier Court decisions concerning student expression. While the school must tolerate student expression, it is not required to promote it. The media's abhorrence of the Fairness Doctrine stems from a similarly negative reading of the First Amendment: just as the state has no right to prevent the expression of views on televison, it should have no right to require their expression. But in this instance, suddenly the enemies of a positive interpretation of the First Amendment demand that news deemed unfit by the owner of a paper (the school board) be forced into publication by the courts...
...political parties, was effectively taken with the formation in 1986 of the liberal Democratic Progressive Party, which is expected to be granted full legal rights later this year. More problematic is the goal of reorganizing the country's three legislative bodies. Lee's need to play consensus politics may prevent him from moving rapidly on that and other unfinished business. The new leader will almost certainly continue the policy, begun only last November, of allowing Taiwan residents to travel to the mainland to visit family members. So far, more than 11,000 former mainlanders have traveled legally to China...
...with some buxom female mental patients and a lesbian nurse, perhaps, or maybe an on-air radio orgy, would add a level of interest to the film without really impinging at all on the level of asininity, which is already red-lined anyway. Plus, a triple-X rating would prevent most people from accidentally walking in, thus saving them the agony of having to sit through part...