Word: groupe
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Bush has also allowed the right to veto some appointments. Two weeks ago, conservatives torpedoed M. Caldwell Butler, the White House's tentative choice to be chairman of the Legal Services Corporation. But Butler's future dimmed when the former Virginia Congressman told a group of conservatives that he would not stop a Legal Services lawyer from suing a hospital that refused to provide a Medicaid abortion. The group complained to chief of staff John Sununu, who backed away from the nomination...
...secretariat defends its cozy relationship with the ivory business. Eugene Lapointe, CITES secretary-general, says inadequate financial support from governments left the group little choice but to turn to the trade for money. CITES, he says, has no enforcement authority and should not be held accountable for policing. That, he says, is the responsibility of the individual nations. As for the amnesty granted the Singapore and Burundi ivory, the secretariat says a 1985 vote by its member nations empowered it to register all stocks...
...bowel wall but has not spread to the rest of the body. The results of the first study, which appeared in this month's Journal of Clinical Oncology, showed that 49% of patients receiving the treatment were still alive after five years, in contrast to 37% of another group that did not receive the drugs. In a second and much larger study, which has yet to be published, the benefit from the drug therapy "at least matched" the results achieved in the first experiment, said Dr. Moertel...
...airline industry is in the grip of takeover fever. After fending off bids from Los Angeles oilman Marvin Davis, the management and employees of No. 2-ranked United in Chicago are attempting to take their company private for an estimated $6.7 billion. And last June an investor group led by Los Angeles financier Alfred Checchi paid $3.6 billion for No. 4-ranked Northwest Airlines. Of the four largest U.S. carriers, only No. 3, Delta, has yet to take a direct hit in the takeover wars. And its turn may come...
Panamanian rebel commander Moises Giroldi apparently ignored the even greater threat from Battalion 2000, based near the airport 15 miles east of Noriega's headquarters. This group of 800 officers and men has 90% of the P.D.F.'s firepower -- including 120-mm mortars, rocket launchers and armored personnel carriers -- and many of its troops are Cuban-trained. Ultimately, it was units from Battalion 2000 that retook the headquarters and freed Noriega...