President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan said today that separate countries now exist on either side of the Taiwan Strait and voiced support for legislation authorizing a referendum to declare Taiwan independent of China, positions that are certain to anger Beijing.
Indeed, a Western diplomat close to the Council's deliberations said that because of the fixation on the "smoking gun" approach, there did not now exist support in the Council for authorizing force against Iraq.
The authors are also grateful to the Education Office of the São Paulo Center-South Region for authorizing and supporting the development of the project, participant school staff, especially teachers, and students involved in the study.
A similar church suit was brought against Georgetown in 1991 for authorizing university funding for a student group that supported abortion rights.
Mrs. Clinton is facing her own antiwar challenger in the Sept. 12 Democratic primary in New York — Jonathan Tasini, who has criticized her for not apologizing for her decision to support legislation authorizing the war in 2002.
Too few countries appropriately plan for, authorize and support nurses, midwives and community health workers to deliver essential maternal, newborn and child health-care interventions that could save lives.
Others, which clashed with the United States and withheld support for a resolution authorizing war, want to tweak Washington for disregarding them.
Mr. Obama's statements opening the door to the plan came as support for a resolution authorizing force on Capitol Hill seemed to be receding, with even some who had announced support for it now reversing course.
Mr. Erdogan has hinted that he favors granting the Americans access, but also says he would like to see what happens first in the United Nations Security Council, where the United States and Britain do not yet have majority support for a resolution authorizing force to disarm Iraq.
