WASHINGTON — Amid improving harvest expectations for this year, the United States agriculture secretary, Ed Schafer, said Tuesday that he would not lift penalties for farmers who plant crops on land set aside for conservation.
But in explaining Tuesday why he would not go further and lift penalties to allow farmers to plant on conservation land, the secretary explained that economic forces were already shrinking the program.
Pentagon officials are adamantly opposed to having the United Nations play such a role, but State Department officials say having Mr. Annan participate might help in rounding up votes on the Security Council to lift penalties against Iraq.
Once the inspections were carried out to his satisfaction, the chief inspector, Hans Blix, could recommend that the council suspend, though not lift, penalties that have been in place since Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990.
The Fukuoka District Court ruled that it was constitutional for the city government to have ordered teachers to sing the national anthem at school ceremonies, but ordered the city to lift penalties imposed on those who had refused to sing it.
Rapid cycling has inherent compressor lift penalties associated with larger mass flow rates, which need to be minimized.
A BJ Botha-inspired scrum won Munster a pressure-lifting penalty, and they struck for their first try in the very next phase.
Administration officials said they were annoyed but not surprised that the French this week proposed suspending -- but not lifting -- penalties against Iraq that had been imposed on Saddam Hussein's government.
One diplomat said today that Britain was then expected to introduce a resolution lifting the penalties.
The lifting of penalties can be calibrated according to whatever steps, if any, the junta takes.
Rob Stewart, a senior policy analyst for the Drug Policy Foundation, another group in Washington supported by Mr. Soros, said that lifting criminal penalties for marijuana use would be sufficient.
