Word: statement
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...writing to express my disappointment and concern with a number of inaccuracies in the article, "Gay-Lesbian Association Splits" (October 22). First, the statement that the GLSA is an "umbrella organization for...Contact" is erroneous and irresponsible. Contact is a UHS-trained and a -affiliated peer counseling group for issues of sexuality and sexual orientation. It is in no way connected to the GLSA. Further, while Contact is supportive of gay men and lesbians (and their efforts and activities) nationally and on campus, it is also committed to meeting the needs of the broader Harvard community, the diversity of which...
...Spanish interpreter in court, is convicted of trying to influence the result of a local election with a $20 bribe. In Matamoros, where posters from last summer's presidential campaign still crowd the walls, elections are invested with fewer moral, if not legal, expectations. Perhaps the single most striking statement to emerge during the campaign was the call by Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party and the eventual victor, for honest voting and an honest count. Not exactly the kind of statement that would make people sit up and rub their eyes during...
BCCI officials in London expressed astonishment at the arrests. Said BCCI in a statement: "The bank wishes to state categorically that at no time whatsoever has it knowingly been involved in drug traffic-related money laundering." While the arrests had no immediate impact on the bank's substantial legitimate operations, BCCI faces potentially severe penalties under the U.S. antilaundering law. Besides providing for as much as $28 million in possible fines, the U.S. law authorizes the seizure of narcotics- tainted money or assets, including businesses involved in trafficking and money laundering. Thus the bank's U.S. assets could be vulnerable...
...play the game. Said U.S. Customs commissioner William Von Raab: "The bottom line is that whatever kind of financial institution you are, if you have crooks for customers, then you are a crook." Considering the billions of dollars in narcotics cash deposited every year in banks, that statement undoubtedly put honest bankers everywhere in a heightened state of alertness...
Saudi Arabia was not far behind. Earlier this month it declared in a statement, "Saudi Arabia has done enough for OPEC. The kingdom cannot accept that some members have production privileges and others not." Fearing a loss of market share to other OPEC producers, the Saudis boosted their output at least 15%, to more than 5 million bbl. per day. Just as it did in 1986, OPEC's longtime leader is trying to force restraint upon oil producers by pushing prices uncomfortably low. The Saudis last week sounded conciliatory, however, possibly because they believe their point is getting across...