Word: repeals
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Most imperative for the new government is to repeal the laws which curbed civil liberties during the emergency. These include the Press Censorship Act, the Publication of Objectionable Matter Act, the law which suspended habeas corpus, and the Maintenance of Internal Security Act under which thousands of political opponents (including most of the new cabinet) were imprisoned. Since many of these laws were constitutional amendments, their repeal will require a two thirds vote in both houses of Parliament and ratification by a majority of the states. With the Congress Party still controlling the upper house of Parliament and nearly...
Only Sop. Suddenly the rest of labor's legislative program is in deep trouble. A prime example: repeal of Section 14B of the Taft-Hartley Act, which permits states to outlaw the union shop. Congressional leaders, smarting from the common-situs debacle, are unlikely even to introduce a repeal bill. There are other indications of labor's rapidly declining political clout. Carter passed over the AFL-CIO'S choices for Secretary of Labor (John Dunlop) and Secretary of Defense (James Schlesinger). He also has named New York City Human Rights Commissioner Eleanor Holmes Norton to head...
While Mrs. Gandhi will not suffer under the new regime, many of her policies will. At his first press conference, the new Prime Minister announced that he would try to repeal her constitutional amendments restricting civil liberties and the powers of the courts. He also said his priority in domestic policy would be to "remove poverty" and end unemployment, a task he concedes might take a long time. Like other Janata leaders he is preoccupied with Mahatma Gandhi's ideal of local development, and will probably stress agriculture and village industry rather than big business and heavy industry...
Martin said that he expected the Faculty to endorse the first third of the concentrations task force report, in which the recommendation to repeal the current tutorial teaching quotas appears, even if the ERG proposal does reach the full Faculty for discussion...
...introduced into the House last week either to override the ban on saccharin or, more generally, to amend the Delaney amendment so that the FDA can apply some sort of "reasonableness test" to the results of experiments like those on the saccharin-stuffed rats. There is little sentiment to repeal the Delaney amendment outright or to write detailed standards for the FDA to follow. Congressmen, says one Senate aide, dread being put in the position "of voting how much cancer is to be allowed in food." But public outrage against the saccharin ban is so vehement-in some congressional offices...