Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that if Dutschke was well enough to study, he no longer qualified as a convalescent. In a convoluted explanation, Home Secretary Reginald Maudling explained that Dutschke should not remain in the country unless he was allowed to practice his political beliefs. Since the previous government had seen fit to prohibit Dutschke from doing so, the Tories intended to expel him by this week...
Many men might be somewhat happier about the amendment's effects on divorce laws. It would prohibit the payment of alimony only to women, for example, so that in many cases men might collect. In child custody suits, any legal preference shown to mothers would be eliminated...
...Nixon Administration has pledged not to send U.S. ground troops into Cambodia again, and the Cooper-Church Amendment, which passed the Senate in June, would specifically prohibit direct U.S. air support to Cambodian troops. But near the embattled town of Skoun last week, an Associated Press reporter watched a Cambodian officer request-and get-an air strike by American F-100s, whose bombs landed a scant 300 yds. from the Cambodian positions. In Washington, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird parried the inevitable inquiries about the U.S. air support with an exercise in semantics. The U.S. pilots were not providing "air support...
Unless an act of flag abuse presents an immediate danger to public safety ?for example, it incites to riot?then, by Neuborne's reasoning, it represents a political statement. Says U.C.L.A. Professor Melville Nimmer: "When we have symbolic speech, and the only reason the authorities prohibit the speech is because they object to what is being said, then that is suppressing speech." In the early 1900s, some states enforced religious orthodoxy through blasphemy statutes under which a person was held criminally liable for showing indignity or irreverence toward God. In some ways the flag laws are a political analogue...
...effort to prevent construction of new housing intended for the poor. To encourage such projects, so the tired argument runs, would hurt the neighborhood and overload its schools. Washington has long avoided making a direct challenge to such local rules. But last week the Nixon Administration asked Congress to prohibit local governments from using their power to control land use in ways that thwart construction of federally subsidized housing for low-or moderate-income families. The legislation would hit suburbs hard, because it would apply only to "underdeveloped or predominantly undeveloped" areas-that is, wealthier areas...