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While Barro sent his proposal for the revamped grants process to FiCom in an email on Saturday, other FiCom members said they were never told the plan would be put into effect so soon, or without committee consent...
...rushed into the delivery room for the birth of her second child, a nurse thrust a paper in her face, saying, "You must sign. We will tie off your tubes. You won't have more children." Given no time to consider alternatives, and little explanation of the procedure, Plachetkova consented. "I had no choice," she says. "I had to sign." A 27-year-old mother of two from Svedlar in eastern Slovakia, Plachetkova is one of some 110 Roma women who allege that they were forcibly sterilized in Slovakia's public hospitals since the 1989 fall of communism. The allegations...
...Short of finding a smoking gun, Blix's report couldn't have been better for U.S. efforts to win international consent for military action against Iraq. France, Germany, Russia and China remain unconvinced by U.S. allegations that Iraq represents an imminent danger, and oppose military action right now, insisting instead that the inspection process be given more time. Britain backs the U.S. position but the skepticism of the British electorate requires that Washington seek UN authorization for an attack. Iraq's Arab and Turkish neighbors oppose a war, but have resigned themselves to its inevitability and have put the onus...
...soon begin taking Iraqi scientists abroad for questioning - a key demand of the Bush Administration to ensure that the inspection process has the best chance of establishing the facts on Saddam's weapons programs. Still, conducting such interviews may be far from easy, since they rely on the consent of the individual Iraqi scientist, which may not be forthcoming. In short, nobody expects the inspectors have reached anything close to a conclusion by the January 27 deadline mandated in UN Security Council Resolution 1441. That could exacerbate rifts in the Bush administration, and with its closest ally, over whether, when...
...Council meeting over whether a monetary allocation by council President Sujean S. Lee ’03 and Vice President Anne M. Fernandez ’03 for bettering council technology—including the council’s website and Web-based voting system—required the consent of the full council...