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...Mass., shipyards in the early '70s. During his security check, few of the claims Veliotis made about his background in Greece could be confirmed. He provided no birth certificate, and his Greek naval service could not be corroborated. Nonetheless, Veliotis was granted secret clearance. Furthermore, since Defense Department rules prohibit immigrant aliens from running top-secret facilities, the General Dynamics shipyards at Quincy and Groton, Conn., were downgraded to secret status to allow Veliotis access...
...shock the white-dominated government into moving faster to end repression of the country's 22 million member black majority. To that end, the Senate last week voted 80 to 12 in favor of a bill that would ban new bank loans to South Africa, cut off nuclear trade, prohibit the sale of computers to government agencies and deny federal aid to the exports of nearly all U.S. companies with facilities there unless they obey what are known as the Sullivan principles. These are a set of six guidelines drafted by the Rev. Leon Sullivan, a director of General Motors...
Proponents of the Connecticut ordinances say they address a loophole in the state law that makes it a crime for anyone under 21 to drink on public property but does not prohibit drinking in private homes. "If police go to a home and look through a window and see a kid drinking beer, there's nothing they can do unless they're invited in," says Craig Turner, vice chair of the Connecticut Coalition to Stop Underage Drinking (CCSUD), which has been a major force in pushing for the ordinances. "And even if they manage to get invited in, the only...
...cite it in opposing voluntary PRAs. But this is a false argument because nobody who finds PRAs too risky is forced to choose them. Only those who want to accept more risk for more return will choose PRAs, and it should not be government’s role to prohibit that they...
...will experience these frustrations as Europe's elderly, many of whom suffer age-related limits on mobility, increase from 16% of the population today to 21% in 2025. By contrast, disabled access in the U.S. has advanced significantly since the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in 1990 to prohibit discrimination against disabled people and guarantee access to public buildings. "It's obvious we have to do something now because we are very much behind other countries, notably the Nordic countries and the U.S.," says Jean-François Chossy, a deputy in France's National Assembly, who sponsored...