Word: readmit
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Thus, when the World Psychiatric Association met in Athens last week, one of the most controversial issues on its agenda was whether to readmit Soviet psychiatrists, who resigned in 1983 rather than face expulsion for human- rights abuses. Eager for acceptance, the Soviets made an eleventh-hour acknowledgment that "previous political conditions in the U.S.S.R. created an environment in which psychiatric abuse occurred for nonmedical, including political, reasons...
After a stormy session, the World Psychiatric Association decides to readmit the Soviet delegation -- with some important strings attached...
Sports-mad South Africans have been desperate for world-class competition since international sporting bodies began banning them 25 years ago and vowed not to readmit them until apartheid was abolished. With the news two weeks ago that a "rebel" English cricket team would play two tours in South Africa, most of the country's whites rejoiced...
...laws that govern the rights of psychiatric patients. The Soviets have also permitted Western psychiatrists to come to the U.S.S.R. and see for themselves whether mental patients are being mistreated. Those efforts seem to be bearing fruit: last week, the executive committee of the World Psychiatric Association voted to readmit the Soviets, who had withdrawn $ from the organization in 1983 under threat of expulsion. If that decision is approved at a meeting of the W.P.A.'s full membership in Athens next October, Soviet psychiatry will have scored a substantial victory...
...Teamsters and the AFL-CIO. The labor federation expelled the Teamsters on charges of corruption in 1957, precipitating raiding wars in which each side sought to increase membership at the other's expense. That rift ended last week, when the AFL-CIO board, representing 13.1 million workers, voted to readmit the 1.8 million-strong Teamsters union. Said AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland: "This is a process of pursuing solidarity and bringing into one house all of labor's children...