Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student-faculty Committee on Housing will again prohibit student observers and reporters from attending its University Hall meeting today, continuing a policy unexpectedly adopted at the first meeting of the new group last week...
...town fathers of Blanchard, La., have passed two ordinances that give new meaning to the phrase "gag order." One is designed to prohibit city employees from publicly criticizing elected officials. A second bars employees from talking to the press or writing articles without prior permission from city hall. Blanchard (pop. 1,128) enacted the laws after area newspapers quoted an assistant fire chiefs criticism of new aldermen. Violators of the ordinances face disciplinary action in addition to possible firing. Only those few in top elective jobs will be exempted from the ban. That includes Police Chief Ted Bostwick, who grumbles...
Most recently, the prime minister's outright rejection of President Reagan's Mideast initiative exasperated the increasing number of moderate Israelis who want to make compromises for peace. That plan includes full autonomy for the Palestinians and would prohibit future Israeli settlements in the contested West Bank and Gaza Strip, so Begin perceived it as a rejection of his own well-laid plans. Certainly the Reagan proposal has features that may territorially slight Israel. But Begin's swift rejection of the plan wholesale led some Israelis to criticize his "hard-headedness" as detrimental...
PFAW could not defend texts blacklisted by the Gablers at the public hearings, since state regulations allow only negative testimony and prohibit all positive comment. But the board of education will accept written rebuttals by supporters of the criticized texts. In a junior high school health text, the Gablers objected to a class discussion assignment on the concept of "worry." "It has no place being studied in the classroom," wrote the Gablers. The American Way rebuttal: "This objection is a dogmatic statement with no basis in education theory." The Gablers disapproved of an entire chapter of an eighth-grade civics...
...Nothing in this Constitution shall be construed to prohibit individual or group prayer in public schools or other public institutions. No person shall be required by the United States or by any state to participate in prayer." The President and proponents like Jerry Falwell of Moral Majority demand the change in the name of religious freedom, the same cry raised by the other side...