And in 1988, the Scouts dropped its ban on women becoming Scoutmasters.

Singapore drops its 21-year ban on Cosmopolitan magazine and slightly relaxes its film censorship policy.

Because such issues are not settled the United States has not yet formally dropped its proposed ban on mobile missiles.

In another conciliatory move, Russia dropped its ban on American poultry imports, the Clinton Administration announced.

In 2011, the UK dropped its ban on homosexual donors.

A10 Bob Jones University will drop its ban on interracial dating, the university's president said.

Drill instructors used it to toughen the troops, leading veterans' groups to demand its legalization, and New York dropped its ban in 1920.

So far, no country has dropped its ban.

But what really tipped the tiara was the suggestion that the pageant drop its nearly 50-year ban on contestants who had been married or pregnant.

But the bar association dropped its ban seven years ago, and 44 states now permit some form of television coverage of their judicial systems.