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Meanwhile, the U.N. Security Council lifted some of the sanctions leveled against Serbia after Belgrade closed its border with Bosnia. A ban on civilian air traffic will be lifted for 100 days, and the Serbs can resume international sports and cultural contacts. The council also condemned Bosnian Serbs for renewal of their ethnic-cleansing campaign in northern Bosnia, where about 3,000 Muslims have been driven from their homes...
...federal advisory panel called on the National Institutes of Health to lift its 15-year ban on embryo research -- a suggestion that's sure to anger the religious right. The panel stated that embryos "do not have the same moral status as infants and children," and that scientists should be allowed to conduct federally funded experiments on them -- albeit with strict controls. One of these, the panel recommends, is to limit research to embryos that are no older than 14 days, the time when a fetus begins to develop a nervous system. The NIH is expected to make a final...
...Wafd claims that several thousand Egyptian girls are circumcised daily at the hands of "hygenic barbers." In all, some 80% of Egyptian women have undergone circumcision, which serves no purpose beyond depriving females of sexual pleasure; Egyptian men believe this condition ensures their fidelity. While Egyptian law does not ban clitoridectomies, a ministerial decree issued in 1959 bans the procedure in facilities affiliated with the Health Ministry and permits only physicians to perform the surgery. Last week Egyptian authorities arrested Nagla's father, the free-lance producer and the two men who performed the procedure. So far, only the producer...
I.R.A. Broadcast Ban Lifted...
...concession to the I.R.A. after its cease-fire announcement last month, British Prime Minister John Major lifted a ban on broadcasting the voices of Irish Republican Army leaders. Former PM Margaret Thatcher banned the I.R.A. voices from British broadcasts in 1988, but radio and TV stations simply used actors with Northern Irish accents to dub the comments of Republican activists...