21.   Environment groups want a total ban on tankers.

22.   Among the more important steps was an declaration by the eight nations that a total ban on nuclear tests should be negotiated by September.

23.   And dozens of university and biotechnology executives began telling their senators how their home-state institutions would be hurt by a total ban.

24.   Any restriction, they argue, is the first step to a total ban on hunting.

25.   Anti-tobacco forces have discussed a total ban of cigarette ads.

26.   Arlen Specter,R-Pa., an opponent of the total ban, points out the folly of ignorant governments in centuries past that tried to stifle science.

27.   A group of European Union veterinary scientists has already recommended a total ban on British beef exports.

28.   A newspaper would be handicapped by a total ban on anonymous sources.

29.   A total ban is long overdue.

30.   A total ban on the production of plutonium and highly enriched uranium worldwide is a matter of some urgency.