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...gathering will produce more paper than progress, Administration officials concede. There will be the nonbinding communiqué, wherein the leaders will declare the dangers of nuclear proliferation. They will pledge to take new national and international measures to secure nuclear materials within four years. The summit will produce a "work plan" of steps that individual states will take to secure their nuclear materials; that too will be nonbinding. And individual countries will announce their own measures, to the extent that they want to do more...
...cluttered office just off St. Peter's Square, Lombardi stuck to the official line about Ratzinger's role in the Munich transfer, saying "it was normal" that the assigning of priests - even those with serious problems - was handled by deputies without the knowledge of the Archbishop. "I believe the communiqués from Munich are sufficient," he said, referring to the statements of the German church hierarchy...
...Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the American Psychiatric Association. On Jan. 21, the ACOG made an urgent call for depression screening as early as possible during pregnancy. "Studies have shown that untreated maternal depression negatively affects an infant's cognitive, neurologic and motor skill development," read an ACOG communiqué issued to its members. The document went on to "strongly encourage" obstetricians to screen patients for depression as part of their routine practice...
...caution over how quickly Afghan forces will be able to take over. Last November, Brown had suggested that five provinces would be under Afghan control by the end of 2010, and President Obama set a goal of beginning to draw down U.S. troops in July 2011. Thursday's communiqué avoids most such specifics. Britain's Secretary of State for Defense Bob Ainsworth told TIME he expects "late this year or early next to be able to transition some provinces" to Afghan control. "We're not on an exit strategy," he added. "We're going to put this country...
...premature release of the communiqué by German officials before the daylong conference even broke for a lunch of goat's cheese and sea bass underlined how little would be decided at the conference itself. And the document's boilerplate contents revealed the limits on what had been agreed in the detailed negotiations that preceded Thursday's summit. (See video of the war in Afghanistan up close...