The experiment authorized today also applies to still photography in Federal courtrooms, which has been subject to the same longstanding ban.

Japanese Government officials say that would violate a longstanding ban on taking part in collective security arrangements.

The military also kept in effect a longstanding ban on homosexual acts.

Despite a longstanding ban on smoking, fans lit up defiantly.

Even countries with a longstanding ban on tobacco advertising have failed to reduce juvenile smoking after many years.

The changes also come after demonstrations protesting the Government's longstanding ban on blood donations by Haitians.

The new President promised to lift the longstanding ban on homosexuals in the military.

The longstanding and much-ridiculed ban on chewing gum has just been relaxed.

In 1950, the longstanding ban on overnight parking was overturned.

In another break with Japan's pacifist tradition, the plan calls for selectively ending a longstanding ban on arms exports.