Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...California, Don Muchmore's State Poll found that voters favor by a 2-to-l margin the controversial Proposition 16, which would strengthen anti-pornography legislation by popular initiative. Known as the CLEAN amendment (for the Californiam League to Enlist Action Now), Proposition 16 would broaden the criteria for declaring material obscene and give police discretion in making seizures. Opponents argue that Proposition 16 amounts to unconstitutional censorship. Democratic Governor Edmund Brown, running for his third term, opposes the proposition, while his Republican opponent, Ronald Reagan, supports...
...kinds of charitable organizations that perform similar services. If religious groups were forced to give up tax exemptions, "serious questions of unconstitutional discrimination might arise." Indeed, taxing churches might well violate the First Amendment's "free exercise" clause. By contrast, suggested the Maryland court, not taxing churches may strengthen religious freedom...
...grant that financed Deutsch's appointment totalled $12.5 million and was designed to strengthen Harvard's program in international affairs...
...past, there has been little chance for personal contact with the faculty," the audit states, but the HPC thinks the tutorial will eliminate this problem. And the new course curriculum will strengthen middle level offerings, "giving a more solid, unspecialized background in the field...
That move alone, says the "appalled" Northern California-Nevada Council of Churches, would permit the law to be used for banning even the Bible, not to mention much of the classics and 95% of current fiction. But Proposition 16 does not stop there. To "strengthen" Section 311, it would also...