In her meeting with Senator Norm Coleman of Minnesota -- an outspoken opponent of drug importation -- Stahl had planned to stick to issues of senior-citizen mental health and long-term care, on which she knew they had common ground.
Mr. Forbes remained with the utility as a consultant on two major projects with which he had been associated - a planned reservoir for powering hydro-electric generators at Storm King Mountain and the importation of huge amounts of electricity from Labrador.
Mr. Blagojevich, who planned to send the request on Monday to Tommy G. Thompson, the secretary of health and human services, wants Illinois to be designated for the nation's first "federally approved drug importation pilot program".
Republicans responded Wednesday with a strong condemnation not only of Mr. Kerry's plans for importation and bulk buying of drugs, which they denounced as costly and unrealistic, but also of what they described as blatant and base politicking.
The Eyewear segment deals with planning and importation of eyeglass-frame sunglasses, and eyeglass peripheral products.
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y). plans to introduce legislation Tuesday to "prohibit the transfer, importation, or possession of high capacity magazines manufactured after the bill is enacted".
The importation of used tyres is a recognised route for tropical mosquitoes to get into a country and Dr Medlock urged that "a better system to monitor imported used tyres, in which disease-carrying mosquitoes lay their eggs, needs planning".
The drug makers also contend that the importation of drugs from Canada is illegal, a claim echoed by the F.D.A. "We're not going to snatch a bottle of pills from some old lady who spent $200 on Lipitor in Canada," said William Hubbard, the F.D.A's associate commissioner for policy and planning.
Uwe E. Reinhardt ("How to Lower the Cost of Drugs," Op-Ed, Jan . 3, in arguing against the prescription-drug importation plan scuttled by the Clinton administration, ignores the pricing problems that led me to write the original bill.
Indonesian police initially maintained that Chan was the "mastermind" of the importation plan.
