Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lebanon and Syria: Upon leaving Jordan unwillingly, the PLO set up camp in Lebanon in 1970. Israel had never meddled in Lebanon until that point. Though Golda Meir made it clear that Israel would not sanction terrorists to its north, Lebanon permitted the PLO to gain a foothold. Joining with indigenous leftist forces, the PLO raided Christian cities until Syrian dictator Hafez al-Assad came to the phalangists' aid and began fighting the Palestinians and their Lebanese allies. Assad had observed Hussein's problems and worried about a PLO ascendance...
...during the stormy reign of King Henry VIII, the play revolves around the events leading up to Sir Thomas More's execution for refusing to sanction Henry's divorce of his first wife to marry his mistress Anne Boleyn. Henry doesn't require More's permission as his chancellor to marry again: he merely wants the approval of his friend to the point he will kill More if he doesn't sign his name to a piece of paper, condoning the marriage...
...beginning of World War III. Yet if they were not there, and the black bag in their charge were not within the President's easy reach, he would be unable to preserve and enforce a balance of power between East and West; he would no longer embody the sanction of American force necessary to restrain the nation's adversaries. In that case, the world would be an even more dangerous place than it is with one of these four officers constantly at the President's side...
...trifle disingenuous. Had he simply wanted Congress to reaffirm the policy of denying tax exemptions to discriminatory schools, he could have submitted such legislation before revoking the rule. Even that could have been interpreted as an un necessary reopening of an old controversy. Congress clearly forbade any Government sanction of, or support for, racial bias in the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In 1970 the IRS applied the policy by withholding tax breaks to discriminatory schools, and the Supreme Court later ruled that this was a correct reading of the law and the Constitution. Argues a civil rights advocate within...
...Europeans also believe that Reagan refused to invoke the only effective economic sanction against Moscow, an embargo of U.S. grain, simply because he did not want to hurt American farmers. Nonetheless, they complain, the President expects the allies to ban the export of high technology to the U.S.S.R. and shelve plans for building a 3,000-mile natural-gas pipeline from Siberia to West Germany. "These measures would be much more costly to us than anything the U.S. has done," insists a French official. "If the U.S. were to cut off grain sales, then perhaps it could ask Europe...