Word: allowed
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...said that "in the near future" foreigners would be permitted to freely travel across the border, a move which might allow tourists and could be expected to speed up the easing of tensions between the Koreas...
...except in the event of another coup attempt. For Corazon Aquino, the news that Imelda Marcos had just been acquitted of fraud and racketeering charges in a New York court must have been nearly as distressing. The President's office reacted by tersely reaffirming Aquino's decision "not to allow the return of Mrs. Marcos at the present time." But across the Pacific, a vindicated Marcos told reporters, "I think I should be able to come home now" and expressed her determination to bury her husband on Philippine soil. Said she: "That is my only obsession...
Mazowiecki may be hoping that, by removing the issues, he can demonstrate that the trade unionist's presidential bid is firmly rooted in personal ambition. He might be hoping as well that, in return for a crack at the country's top job, Walesa will allow the government to get on with governing...
When Paul Zimmer, director of the University of Iowa Press, got notification of his annual grant of support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the new language restricting allowable content sent him on a long, brooding walk. When Los Angeles choreographer Bella Lewitzky received her notice, she just crossed out the offending restrictions against obscenity before signing, a response the NEA would not allow. Media-minded impresario Joseph Papp of New York City's Public Theater wrote an op-ed open letter for the New York Times. The business-minded board of the Oregon Shakespearean Festival, the largest...
Lest some of us should think we live in a glass bubble from which we may watch such movies--sympathetic and untouched--allow me to share my lesson with...