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Nuclear Free Cambridge, a local task force, last week began a petition drive to place a binding referendum on this November's ballot that would prohibit nuclear weapons research and development in Cambridge...
...regulations prohibit ROTC official presence on campus but leave open the possibility "than it operate as other ordinary extracurricular activities...
...royal family's use of injunctions to block unwelcome disclosures in the press is not new. In 1849 Queen Victoria's consort Prince Albert went to court to forestall publication of sketches drawn by himself and his wife. The last use was in May 1981 to prohibit distribution of alleged transcripts of telephone conversations between Prince Charles and his then fiancée Lady Diana. But last week marked the first time the royal family has sued a newspaper for punitive damages...
Tribe argued against the Human Life Federalism Amendment, which would allow individual states to prohibit abortion before the Senate Judiciary Sub-Committee on the Constitution. Sen. Orrin Hatch (D-Utah), who sponsored the legislation, chairs that sub-committee...
...Kremlin can sometimes buy technology through intermediaries, "false flag operations." U.S. export restrictions prohibit the sale of sensitive equipment to the Warsaw Pact nations, but the Soviets have found willing channels abroad. West European businessmen will buy the desired hardware and export it to dummy European companies, which then reexport it to the Soviet Union. Austria and Switzerland, with relatively lax controls on imports, have become favored trading posts. Says an executive from one Silicon Valley company: "If every piece of equipment shipped to Vienna stayed there, the city would sink...