Word: prohibitions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gorbachev continued his propaganda blitz with some carrot-and-stick diplomacy. He dangled the carrot in front of eight American Senators, led by West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd, who called on him in the Kremlin. Gorbachev, said Byrd, promised that if the U.S. "would agree to prohibit the militarization of space," in other words call a halt to Star Wars, Moscow would "put on the negotiating table . . . the very next day" a set of the "most radical proposals" to reduce offensive nuclear weapons...
...Wade is grounded in manipulation of information. The court did not, as Meese has charged, give women the "unfettered right" to "abortion on demand." Roe v. Wade holds that women may not be constrained from choosing abortions in the first trimester but gives states some rights to prohibit abortions in the second trimester and the right to prohibit all but lifesaving abortions in the third trimester. Roe v. Wade found that a woman's right to make reproductive decisions is part of a "right to privacy" implicit in the 14th Ammendment to the Constitution. Judge Harry Blackmun, in the historic...
...attacked was the liberty of bigots to deny dignity and rights to Black people. Do these protesters wish to deny to the Corporation the right to conduct it, business? Do they wish to deny to an individual the right to drive on a public thoroughfare? Or should the law prohibit these things? My second condition is that all other means of protest be exhausted. Such was the case when peaceful demonstrators were attacked with tear gas, as it is now in South Africa where writers are banned for their words and marchers are tortured and killed. Nothing comparable applies...
...bill would restrict the activity of American business in the apartheid state and would prohibit the sale of some South African commodities in this country...
...commissioner's office should be applauded for encouraging clubs to dilute ballpark beer and to prohibit end-of-game beer sales, but baseball should pursue the best solution to the mob problem--sell no beer...