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...flow. The Spanish and Moroccan governments announced last week that they would launch joint marine patrols to head off illegal immigration. The E.U. has begun negotiations with 11 countries to give them a guaranteed legal immigrant quota in exchange for more cooperation in stopping illegals. So far, Albania, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong and Macao have all agreed to accept the return of any immigrant that passed through its territory on the way to the E.U. No European country is ready to yield its immigration policy to the E.U., though member states have accepted some harmonization of standards and last month...
...happy here, because I don’t have to live with it and deal with it everyday,” said Nilanthi D. Gunawardane ’05, an international student from Sri Lanka, where the president declared a state of emergency in assuming wide executive powers, in an internal political struggle, in early November. “But because my family is there, I worry about them all the time...
Gunawardane said the turmoil in Sri Lanka has affected her career plans...
...Lanka's Crisis In your story on Sri Lanka's political situation [Nov. 17], you stated that President Chandrika Kumaratunga "declared a state of emergency, then declined to sign the order two days later." This is completely false. For a state of emergency to be declared, the President of Sri Lanka has to sign a proclamation, which has to be gazetted together with the emergency regulations. As this was not the case on this occasion, a state of emergency was never promulgated. You stated that the President "ordered a nationwide deployment of the army, which subsequently denied receiving any such...
...current FDA policy is unnecessarily inconvenient and the United States is embarrassingly behind the rest of the world in offering this pregnancy prevention option. Emergency contraception was already available over the counter in 26 countries by 2000, ranging from Britain, Israel and Switzerland to Sri Lanka, Albania and Madagascar. If women around the world can handle the daunting task of taking a pill all by themselves, why can’t we? For a country that professes to be a leader in the global fight for women’s rights and access to birth control, we certainly drag...