Word: interdict
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...basing their strategy primarily on policing, the Republican legislation cuts to the heart of debates over drug policy. "Attempts to interdict narcotics have taken a heavy toll on American society, but they've failed to end the drug problem," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "Internationally, drug control is moving in the direction of complementing interdiction with education campaigns and rehabilitation programs to reduce demand for drugs, and even financial incentives for impoverished farmers to switch from drug plants to alternative crops." But with midterm elections looming, the GOP initiative may restrain any inclination in the Clinton administration to try alternative...
...President's feckless Bosnia policy represents a sin of omission -- an unwillingness or inability to rally the world against Serbia's aggression -- then, argued Robinson, Clinton's Haiti stance reflected an even more reprehensible sin of commission. "To interdict people and then turn them back to be killed without granting them ((asylum hearings))," he said, "makes the President complicit in the killing of those people...
Just in the past year CIA information helped: the French government prevent the shipment of missile-related graphite cylinders to Pakistan; the Germans to interdict a shipment of Scud-missile production equipment being transferred to Syria; Italian authorities to block the delivery of excavation equipment en route to Libya for possible use in construction of an underground chemical- weapons plant; and the Swiss to stop the sale of equipment ordered by a nuclear-related Pakistani company...
...institution committed to the organizational principle of "every tub on its own bottom," Lowell's interdict against seeking donors was a terrible omen, one that would re-emerge some six decades later when the museum's director, professor of archaeology Lawrence Stager, would not raise money himself and barred others from doing so besides. But this jumps ahead of the story...
...Filipinos ready for combat, and the War Department began in the summer of 1941 to ship him the first of a promised 128 new B-17 Flying Fortresses. By April 1942, said Marshall, that would represent "the greatest concentration of heavy-bomber strength anywhere in the world," able to interdict any Japanese assault on Southeast Asia and mount "incendiary attacks to burn up the wood and paper structures of the densely populated Japanese cities...