Word: withdrawal
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...permitted to enter the U.S.? No, says the Justice Department, which has imposed a ban on such immigrants and travelers. Yes, says the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which has been lobbying to change that policy. Change it or else, says Harvard University, which is about to withdraw as host of next year's International AIDS Conference unless the ban is lifted. The annual conference, which draws thousands of scientists, is the key forum for researchers investigating the worldwide epidemic. "It's impossible to have a meeting dedicated to AIDS to which people with the disease...
...visas would be impermissible, officials there say. In addition, the disclosure requirement for a short-term visa, notes Fein, could put travelers at risk of losing their jobs or insurance and encountering other problems once they return home. Harvard is expected to announce next week its decision to withdraw as host of the June 1992 meeting...
...with a vengeance. He voiced sympathy for French families who have to live with the "noise and smells" of tenements inhabited by the newcomers. Cresson proposed last week to charter aircraft to send unlawful immigrants home, but an outburst of protests from fellow Socialists in Parliament caused her to withdraw the idea...
...difficult to predict whether the bloodshed had scared the two sides sufficiently to cool them down so they could resume negotiations -- or if the army's tactics would provoke more belligerence from Slovenia. Early Saturday each side agreed to cease-fire terms under which the army would withdraw its troops and Slovenia would suspend claims to sovereignty. But the arrangement seems tenuous at best. The Slovenian government stated that it had agreed only to hold off for three months on further steps toward independence. Said Slovenian foreign minister Dimitrij Rupel: "What we've done, we shall keep." After the army...
...anesthetized upon an operating table in the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, Calif. A surgeon inserted a 1-in.-long needle into the baby's hip and slowly began to withdraw bone marrow. In 20 minutes they removed about a cup of the viscous red liquid -- the stuff of resurrection...