Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This proposed amendment would absolutely prohibit any court and any government agency from assigning schoolchildren to or requiring them to attend a particular school on account of race, creed, or color. It would constitute, in effect, a supporting provision in the Constitution for the true interpretation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, namely, that government is forbidden to use race, creed, or color in connection with its official policies and programs...
...professors at the Medical School yesterday said they have issued statements opposing a bill before the State Senate-House Judiciary Committee that would prohibit experimentation on human fetuses...
...individual contributions to $15,000 for a presidential election and $3,000 for a congressional election. Because the limits apply separately to primaries, runoffs and general elections, a person could give up to $30,000 to a presidential candidate and $9,000 to a congressional candidate. The President would prohibit cash contributions of more than $50 and any loans or gifts of stock to candidates, and would permit candidates to have only one political committee each, to prevent them from using dummy committees to conceal the size and source of donations...
...Project on Corporate Responsibility has called on five corporations--Union Oil, Gulf, Warner-Lambert, Eastman Kodak and International Telephone and Telegraph--to amend their bylaws to prohibit contributions to political campaigns...
Harrington is concerned about gun control and he has recently filed a bill in the House to prohibit and confiscate all handguns, with exceptions for law enforcement officials and a few other groups. He sees chances for approval in the judiciary committee as good, but is less optimistic about the possibilities in Congress unless it receives executive support...