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Present state Zoning Enabling statutes forbid city ordinances that "prohibit or limit" use of property for non-profit schools and colleges and religious institutions. The effect of the proposed Senate bill 236 would be to deny this exemption to certain kinds of institutions, including colleges...
Hopper also insisted that any agreement to prohibit nuclear-armed missiles should be limited to areas in Central Europe, explaining that "the West's ability to protect Germany and Berlin against Russian land forces would be destroyed by a prohibition of nuclear weapons in all of Western Europe...
Mills' specific suggestions to alleviate the thrust towards World War III, while eminently worthwhile, are less dramatic than his original thesis. He thinks that the United States should withdraw from all overseas bases, cease production and testing of nuclear weapons, encourage European disarmament, relax restrictions on scientific work, prohibit arms shipments to the Middle East, establish greater cultural exchange with Russia, provide a trained civil service, and reestablish civilian control over the military. However, the more important of Mills' recommendations are made less meaningful by his inclusion of seemingly trivial suggestions such as the foundation of a fleet of airlines...
...student opinion. The second instance of restraint involves the broader issue of casting a blanket of silence around controversial speakers, by not allowing them to appear on college campuses. Such was the action taken by the Administrative Council of the Board of Higher Education of New York to prohibit persons convicted under the Smith Act from speaking at the city colleges...
...prelude to a Communist-inspired campaign to prohibit nuclear weapons altogether because "the Soviet Union has systematically sought to paralyze the West's will" to use those weapons. "In the present state of Western defenses, such a prohibition is tantamount to unilateral disarmament...