Word: banning
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...measures, which took effect last week, include: a ban on wearing civilian clothes on the base or when leaving it; a one-third increase in trainees' duty time, to 24 hours spread over every four days; and the assignment of 100 extra petty officers, making a total of 1,700. The worst troublemakers were transferred to a new disciplinary division led by Chief Warrant Officer Joseph ("Gunner") Cahill. Said the veteran Navyman: "Most of these guys will be good sailors. But they need someone to say, This is the way it is.' We have to bring them...
...curious attempt to impose aural purity on his people, the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini earlier in the week had proposed that music be banned from national broadcasting. "Worse than opium," he said, "music is among the elements that stultify the mind of our youth." Television and radio officials said they would go along with the ban for the holy month but would decide later whether or not to resume normal musical programs...
Melodramatic as the battle of Oporto may have been, it was largely anticlimactic. Major whalers are already in retreat, having suffered a stinging defeat two weeks ago at a London meeting of the International Whaling Commission (I.W.C.), which overwhelmingly voted to ban hunting of all whales (except the still numerous minkes) by factory ships on the high seas; only coastal whaling will be permitted. The I.W.C. also approved creation of a whale sanctuary in the Indian Ocean...
...other hand, the chiefs admitted that some of the proposed accord's provisions "operate primarily to our advantage." As examples, they cited the ceiling of 2,250 launchers, which requires Moscow to dismantle some missiles, and the ban on Soviet mobile SS-16 missiles. The chiefs' main message, however, was that with or without SALT, the U.S. must increase its spending on strategic weaponry-Declared Jones: "We will be required to undertake a series of important strategic modernization programs to maintain strategic parity...
...third and most modest moratorium call has been submitted by the Seychelles, an archipelago 1,000 miles off Africa's eastern coast. The young nation wants a three-year ban on all sperm whaling. It is also asking for creation of a whaling sanctuary in the Indian Ocean, where all species would be protected. The suggestion, given the best chance of passing, would allow scientists to test what many marine biologists regard as shaky thinking behind the IWC's current quotas...