Word: prohibitions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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News Service for instance, a petroleum industry newsletter that costs $435 a year, is available for pennies a copy to anyone with a Xerox machine and a borrowed original. After years of controversy, the Senate last week passed a revision of the copyright law that would prohibit photocopying of more than a small excerpt from copyrighted material. The bill is now bogged down in the House. Says Marshall McLuhan: "Whereas Caxton and Gutenberg enabled all men to become readers, Xerox has enabled all men to become publishers...
...employ Jews in projects within Saudi Arabia. These policies are morally reprehensible, but it is not The Crimson's prerogative to summarily refuse Aramco the right to advertise because of Saudi Arabia's domestic policies. Through its editorial columns The Crimson can and does attack these policies; to prohibit Aramco from advertising under the guise of moral responsibility is to commit a crime of equal proportion to Saudi Arabia's racism...
...Action on Smoking and Health), as well as such organizations as the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association, have had some impressive successes: largely as the result of their campaigns, 31 states and scores of cities in the U.S. have passed a wide range of laws that prohibit smoking in places as varied as elevators, museums, hospitals, theaters, stores, buses and subways. Now, however, the antismokers seem bent on controlling all public "breathing space." In offices and waiting rooms, desk plaques admonish...
Last week Levi told the Senate committee that his department is drafting an order that would allow the FBI to investigate domestic dissidents only if there is "a likelihood" that they are involved in violent and illegal activities. The directive would also prohibit the FBI from trying to discredit or disrupt the organizations unless there was no other way to eliminate "an immediate risk to human life." Under the draft guidelines, the FBI would have to inform the Attorney General of all domestic security probes; in turn, he would be required to halt any investigation that failed to meet...
...Branch, by those who follow you. They will mean absolutely nothing in the face of a willful President or a willful Attorney General." Thus the committee will probably recommend that the standards be written into law. Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, in fact, urged that "specific statutes should authorize, prohibit or regulate every investigative and enforcement method. Government agents should not have to guess what is permitted." Both committee members and Justice Department officials favor requiring court approval of wiretaps in domestic-security cases; such approval is now a federal requirement only in criminal cases...