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...aircraft. Albright had called for a Security Council resolution condemning the shooting, but the 15-member council ultimately released a tamer statement saying it "strongly deplores" the attack, which left four Cuban-Americans dead. The Council also called for an investigation by the International Civil Aviation Organization, which could pave the way for sanctions, although some council diplomats said there was little support for punitive measures against Cuba. The Cuban Foreign Ministry continues its claim that the American planes were over Cuban waters and called the resolution a "miscarriage of justice...
...process that under California law required Health Net to establish an independent, nonprofit foundation and fund it with an amount equal to the company's fair market value--a way of paying back the state for all the taxes the company had avoided as a nonprofit. Conversion would pave the way for going public. In a tactical maneuver, Dr. Hasan filed a lawsuit to block the conversion, charging that Greaves had undervalued the company's net worth and cheated the people of California. After all, Dr. Hasan himself was willing to bid far more...
...Hall, they feel that the Great Hall no longer has a practical use. The space, they claim, would be more effective if its ceiling and paneling were torn out to make way for office cubicles and a fire stair. If the Hall is to be sacrificed, then why not pave over the Yard as well? We could use the parking space...
...rapidly modernizing power that wants to join the World Trade Organization, the conference designed to pave the way turned instead into a public relations mudhole. As for what delegates themselves hoped to achieve, the one-fifth of their Platform for Action that dealt with such issues as reproductive freedoms, gay rights and sex education remained under debate when the Huairou conference ended Friday. Bride burning, female infanticide, rape and economic discrimination came in for round condemnation, but how and to what extent a call to action might end those practices remained in doubt...
...aside the offer of an olive branch. Under a conference sponsored by the Roman Catholic Church in Rome two months ago, the F.I.S. actually agreed to renounce violence. But fearful that the plan's provision for lifting the ban on the F.I.S. and barring the army from politics would pave the way for an Islamic republic, government hard-liners rejected the proposal, condemning the conference participants for "washing Algeria's dirty linen abroad...