Word: sanctions
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...addition to heading the six-million member Zulu tribe, Buthelezi is the president of Inkatha, said to be South Africa's largest Black political party. He opposes divestment and sanction against the South African government and thinks that the Blacks can use peaceful means to obtain a proportioning of power by all races in his native land...
Mills, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, saw some playing time with semi-pro squads in Europe before coming to Harvard, and had to await NCAA sanction to compete intercollegiately here...
...Amico and Murphy have run unusually bitter campaigns, splitting alliances and endorsements. The governor, despite political ties to both, has admonished them for wrangling, while refusing to grant his sanction to either candidacy...
DISINVESTMENT. Possibly the most sweeping and controversial sanction is the House-passed proposal that would give all American companies 180 days after the bill became law to get rid of all their assets in South Africa. This would involve disposal of what is now left of the $1.35 billion in direct holdings by 281 U.S. companies operating in that country at the end of 1985. American firms have been withdrawing at increasing rates: seven in 1984, 39 in 1985, 15 in just the first five months of this year...
...stands at the traditional end of the Jewish spectrum and holds that both of these statements, along with all the rest of Jewish law, carry full Divine sanction in our lives must therefore view homosexual activity (although not necessarily homosexual orientation, over which one has no conscious control) as a sin. There would then be some possible distribution of opinion as to how one establishes a moral balance between the sin on the one hand and the inherent worth of the person on the other...