It must be obvious that for the United States to permit shipments would be to disrupt peace efforts in Europe and lend to force a crisis".
The Connecticut Legislature recently passed and sent to the governor a law that would permit shipments, but New Jersey has no such law.
Since Aug. 18, more than 20 planes from Egypt, Syria and Turkey have landed, reportedly carrying permitted shipments of food and medicine.
Until last year, Mr. Ross said, Syria's role in arming Hezbollah was limited mostly to permitting shipments of Iranian-made arms through its territory.
Twenty-six states permit direct shipments, and 24 ban them.
It was Zia who permitted the shipment of American arms and billions of American dollars to the rebels, and who allowed the border regions of Pakistan to be used by them as a haven and training base.
The Motion Picture Association of America, the industry's trade group, had banned the distribution of so-called screener videodisks and tapes to voters, but protests from filmmakers, producers and independent production companies prompted it to relent to the extent of permitting the shipment of encoded videocassettes.
The CRB also provided the international support necessary to convince the British government to permit the shipments.
Use of dried blood spots (DBS) has logistical advantages over the traditional approach of enzyme assay in isolated lymphocytes, and enzyme stability permits DBS shipment to a central laboratory.
If, in this final month of its spring session, New York's Legislature decides to permit the direct shipment of all wines, it will give these wineries access to the nation's wine market and allow them to gain the national stature that they deserve.
New York does permit in-state shipments directly to customers, raising the issues of protectionism and discrimination.
