Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ruling colonels are a parody of the modern military regime: right-wing officers bow out to reactionaries; one purge succeeds another until there remains only a core of deeply paranoic rulers with a dramatic flair for secret police and censorship. Combining the absurd and the petty, the Greek colonels prohibit political talk in private homes, and deprive Melina Mercouri of her citizenship. Puritanical instincts have prompted them to ban mini-skirts, long hair, classical Greek plays, and to declare compulsory church attendance...
Equal Treatment. Mixed unions are hardly strange to Americans, going back to John Rolfe's marriage to Pocahontas in 1614. In the same era, colonial elders became so concerned about the number of marriages between white indentured women and Negroes that they began writing laws to prohibit them. Abolitionist Frederick Douglass, son of a Negro mother and white father, who became the nation's Minister to Haiti in 1889, divorced a Negro and later married a white woman, explaining blithely that he "wanted to be fair to both races." Negro-white miscegenation, in fact, had a brief vogue...
...social value of discouraging crimes against others is clear; as a result, there is little resistance to laws that prohibit murder, robbery or rape...
...difficult for Africans to move about and organize a resistance to apartheid, but also to turn them into a migratory labor force. The laws make it impossible for a Black to bring his family into the city area, even if he has come to work there. They also prohibit the Africans from forming any trade unions...
Congress has failed to act on a number of reasonable Treasury recommendations: to prohibit buying and selling of securities between a foundation and the family which established it; to require foundations to use their income currently (the existing law only prohibits foundations from accumulating "unreasonable" amounts of income); to require family-foundations to have public trustees within 25 years. It is hard to imagine why Congress did not pass these measures--unless personal interests were involved...