Word: restrictions
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Seldom in this century has legislation so disturbed Britain as the government's bill to restrict immigration from Commonwealth countries. Opponents of the measure range from the left-wing New Statesman, which has damned its "contemptuous" disregard of Commonwealth citizens' traditional right of free entry into Britain, to the Tory Times, which feared for the already fragile fabric of the Commonwealth. Last week, when the bill came up for a two-day debate in Parliament, the staid old House of Commons was plunged into such violent turmoil that the chair had to suspend a session for the first...
Black Irish. Though the government originally defended itself against charges of color bias by announcing that the curb would apply equally to Irish citizens, even this pretense was dropped last week with the lame explanation that the right to restrict Irish immigration would be used only if "absolutely necessary.'' The government's aim is to keep out what one critic of the bill called ''black Irish" immigrants: West Indians who try to enter the country via Ireland. Defending the bill, Home Secretary "Rab" Butler stumbled through an inept speech...
Fretting about U.S. industry's "export of jobs" to lower-wage foreign lands, leaders of two major U.S. unions-the Machinists and the Steelworkers-last week urged Congress to restrict corporate expansion abroad. Next day, at his press conference. President Kennedy used their plea to press his own drive for powers to negotiate sweepingly lower reciprocal tariffs. His argument: if tariff walls stay high, U.S. companies will continue to elude them by setting up branches abroad. "This," said the President, "is a matter of importance to United States workers...
...through its monopoly position takes advantage of students," charged Dunster House Committee Chairman William E. Balley '62. "There is no way to control monopolies but to compete with them or restrict them altogether," he said...
Waiting for that winter to fall once again and restrict their activities, scientists are losing no time in making the most of Antarctica's pleasant-for Antarctica-weather. Among their current projects...