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Refugees and immigrants aren't the only groups that would be affected. In 1990 many non-American members of the World Federation of Hemophilia could not attend their annual convention, which was held in Washington, because they carry the AIDS virus. Ironically, most of them had been infected by American blood products exported to their countries. Under current rules, even a child dying of AIDS could be barred from crossing the border to visit Disneyland. "Let them go to Disneyland in France," DeLay says. "You've got to be hard in situations like this...
...members also stress that AAA is specifically for Asian Americans, while SAA includes non-American Asians in its constituency...
...that the drama of the Toronto Blue Jays' World Series victory has subsided, a rather predictable argument is making the rounds of sports talk shows and bar conversations. Some observers claim it is more than mere coincidence that the first non-American team to win the World Series did so in 1992, the year in which it became impossible to follow Major League Baseball without noticing its off-the-field problems...
...health-insurance benefits for abortions (unless the mother's life is threatened); that legal-aid lawyers are prohibited from providing legal assistance for nontherapeutic abortions; and that private organizations lose federal funds if they engage in abortion-related activities abroad, even when those activities are paid for by non-American sources...
...former American ambassador to Israel, he is now president of the U.S. Institute of Peace, a congressionally funded foundation and think tank devoted to conflict resolution. At his probing, our hosts were willing to allow that U.S. military units might participate in a multinational peacekeeping mission under a non-American general in a U.N. blue beret. But their lack of enthusiasm for the idea was palpable...