If Mr. Green walks away, he cannot make a bid for six months, the panel said.
But for months, the panel's flashing of one number after another has presented a social dilemma.
"Many indicators are quite preliminary at this time and will be revised in coming months," the panel added.
After deliberating for nearly six months, the panel voted to impose restrictions on just 16 streets: 13 in Manhattan, 2 in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, and 1 in Hunts Point in the Bronx.
Despite apparent stonewalling by the Mexican government in recent months, the panel's two reports on the case, the most recent of which was released on Sunday, provide the fullest accounting of the events surrounding the students' disappearance, which also left six other people dead, including three students, and scores wounded.
After holding meetings over several months, the panel will ultimately present its report to party leaders at the convention in Charlotte, N.C.
"In the past 12 months," the panel reported, "the proliferation of weapons from Libya has continued at a worrying rate and has spread into new territory: West Africa, the Levant [the Eastern Mediterranean region], and potentially even the Horn of Africa.
This month the panel has again revised upwards its forecast for growth in most countries.
This month the panel has revised up its forecast for growth in America in 2002 to 2.9%.
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