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Rehnquist also stated that Massachusetts could flatly prohibit liquor licenses for any establishment located near a place of worship. Such a flat ban, he said, is even more protective of churches and more restrictive of liquor sales...
...Tuesday, the council's communications and finance committee preliminarily approved an amendment to the constitution that would prohibit council-sponsored polls on any subject that does not directly apply to either Harvard University, the council, or the student body, subcommittee members said...
...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...