Word: restriction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end Chuck Percy had said nothing publicly about resuming his campaign, but advisers predicted that he would restrict his activities to a few television appearances and issuance of position papers on major issues. No matter which man wins in November, his victory will inevitably be clouded by Valerie's death, a tragedy that made political issues seem almost irrelevant...
...French, go home." When the motorcade had passed, the demonstrators started throwing rocks at the legionnaires, rioted for four hours before they got tired and went home. Next day the riots erupted anew, bringing hundreds of steel-helmeted troops and cops into the streets, and forcing De Gaulle to restrict his tour of the city to a 15-minute whisk along the heavily guarded Boulevard de Gaulle...
...Bills. In its inherent madness, apartheid breeds more apartheid. Recent government edicts have ordered professional associations to expel African doctors and lawyers and have imposed segregation on charitable institutions. Before the current session of Parliament is a bill to further restrict the voting rights of the Cape Coloreds by allowing the government to select the candidates for their four white representatives in Parliament...
Baird also followed the practice, instituted last year at Harvard, of closing all but four gates of the Yard at sunset. This had been a weekend-only policy during the regular year, but Baird decided to put it on a daily basis in order to restrict entrance to the Yard and make it easier for the University police to patrol the dormitory area...
...natty, gnomelike former physician, Banda led his tiny (46,000 sq. mi.) country's fight for independence from the Central African Federation, became Prime Minister in 1964, and has since ruled the impoverished, landlocked nation with autocratic firmness. He jails critics at will, assumes sweeping powers to restrict the movements and statements of anyone in the country. Just to avoid confusion, Banda has even decreed that no Malawi businesses can have a "president" as such; they must find another title. "If I am a dictator," Banda said last week, "it is because my people want...