By an overwhelming vote Friday at its general congress, FINA officials decided to ban the high-tech swimsuits that have been likened to doping on a hanger.
On Jan . 5 Mr. de la Fuente, the former health minister who replaced Mr. Barnes, offered a plan that would suspend all tuition payments indefinitely, cancel most criminal charges brought against students protesters and open the general congress.
Fatah says it will hold its first general congress in 20 years in early August to build on its successes, but it remains unclear if the meeting will take place.
Though the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, appears to have been strengthened by his Fatah movement's recent general congress, he is still far too weak to take on Hamas, which controls Gaza and fought Israel to a political standstill at the beginning of this year.
The strikers also demanded that open admissions for all students from a number of public high schools, which had been canceled in 1995, be reinstated and that a general congress of faculty, students and workers be held to reorganize the university from top to bottom.
A series of acts in 1774 further angered the colonies; activists called for a general congress and they agreed to meet in Philadelphia.
In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask that a general congress of women without limit of nationality may be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient and at the earliest period consistent with its objects, to promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace.
Dawn commanders have reconvened the former government, the general national congress, but true power lies with the militias.
"It has already been discussed in committee," says Juma Ahmad Atigha, deputy president of the general national congress (GNC).
The former general national congress, instead of disarming the revolutionary militias funded them and gave them official status.
