Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debate evolved, ROTC supporters began playing ARAC's own game and introduced their own issue of constitutionality: they argued that by disallowing ROTC's return, the council would be discriminating on the basis of economic disadvantage, a practice also forbidden by its constitution...
ROTC--like the United States military--has a well-defined policy of institutionalized discrimination against gays and lesbians. Gays are explicitly forbidden from participating in ROTC, and are regularly discharged from the armed services if they proclaim their sexual orientation. Several witnesses have stated that during a summer orientation session, one MIT recruit with an earring was forced to stand outside and yell "I am a faggot" for several hours...
...they learn to speak out more freely, Muslims are trying to regain some control of religious affairs. Popular pressures led to last month's installation, with great fanfare, of a new leader for the Central Asia board. The previous head, reputed to be more adept at drinking (forbidden by Islam) and politics than study of the Koran, was ousted after an unprecedented protest march in Tashkent. His successor is Mukhammadsadyk Mamayusupov, 36, a modest and dignified scholar. At the same time as Mamayusupov's elevation, the Uzbek Republic gave his board a precious Koran dictated by Caliph Osman...
...market near the cemetery, where we were buying flowers, someone tried to photograph our group. A watchwoman objected, "It's forbidden to photograph the market! The director doesn't allow it!" Why? Wasn't it because the market was catastrophically empty...
When we stopped for an hour or so at the dacha (twelve miles outside Moscow) where Daniel spent the last years of his life, the police turned up unexpectedly and announced in embarrassment that as foreigners we were "violating a forbidden zone." The good-natured policemen did little to hide the fact that they were being forced to draw up a report on the orders of the KGB. The quiet snowfall beyond the window, reminding us of an old-style Russian winter, was our reward for this "violation...