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FRONT ROYAL, Va., Sept. 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer, president, Human Life International, welcomes the departure of the Women on Waves abortion ship from Portugal and the potential prosecution of its founder, Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, for incitement to illegal abortion. HLI protested the Women on Waves abortion cruises to Ireland in 2001 and to Poland in 2003, but we are especially pleased our collaboration with the Maternidade e Vida pro-life group in Portugal and its director, Francisco Jose Coelho da Rocha, led the Portuguese government to refuse these abortion extremists entry into their waters," stated Father Euteneuer.
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[...] investment treaties ban limitations on capital flows, which in the past have been instrumental in reducing the vulnerability to international financial crises. [...] the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), in which the United States has long enjoyed disproportionate power, should direct credit for balance-of-payments adjustment needs, for infrastructure investment, and for poverty-reduction programs to virtually all Latin American economies.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Executive Director Cort Durocher testified before the new President's Commission on the Implementation of the United States Space Exploration Policy. The President's vision for space focuses on exploring the origins of our solar system, searching for life beyond planet earth, and continuing to produce technological advances that benefit humanity. The vision also provides the U.S. with a unique opportunity to cooperate closely with other countries in the pursuit of these objectives.
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ISLAND FALLS - , 64, died Nov. 13, 2011, surrounded by his family in Houlton. He was born Oct. 11, 1947, in Island Falls, son of Harold H. and Catherine (Nicholson) Hoar. He attended Island Falls High School and marched with the graduating class of 1967, where he played basketball and helped out local teams throughout the years. Harold truly loved sports and his greatest love was high school basketball. He was a long-term fixture for decades at Southern Aroostook area gyms, especially at Southern Aroostook Community High School boys and girls varsity basketball games. The highlight of each basketball season was for Harold to attend the high school basketball play-off tournaments at the Bangor Auditorium, where he enjoyed many adventures with high school basketball fans, pl...
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For the past two months Hamas negotiated with Fatah and other Palestinian parties to form a coalition government of national unity. But negotiations led to greater differences and Hamas decided to go it alone since it had a majority vote in the Palestinian parliament. Fatah criticized Hamas for rejecting the PLO charter which was amended in 1995 to recognize Israel's right to exist. The PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) has been a defunct body for the past dozen years. But the Palestinian Authority exists today by virtue of the agreements signed by Arafat as the head of the PLO. Critics contend that Hamas committed its first strategic error in missing the opportunity to form a unity government that represented all Palestinians. Ousted Fatah politicians like Saeb Erekat warned that...
... Palestinians to isolation from the international community, which had been instrumental in setting ...
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Since the Cities for Climate Protection Program began in 1993, it has grown to 166 member cities in the United States, and more than 700 cities worldwide. In the United States alone, its members' annual reductions in emissions are now equivalent to about 23 million tons of carbon dioxide, a load roughly equal to the entire annual greenhouse gas production of the Philippines. ICLEI estimates that these efforts also net more than $535 million in yearly savings. "There's not one city we've worked with that has not seen some level of cost savings," says Michelle Wyman, the executive director of ICLEI's U.S. office. "It's guaranteed. The Cities for Climate Protection program isn't without its problems and risks. It's entirely voluntary, and commitment to it varies. Tracking emissions a...
... Global Change Institute, convenes international meetings of climate experts in Aspen each summer. ... level.' I think they've been instrumental in creating enough confidence on the international...
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Working alongside bereaved families, INQUEST has been instrumental in drawing national and international attention to the lack of independence in the U.K. investigation processes, allegations of abuse and neglect by custodians, and institutional indifference to the deaths. An unidentifiable number died in psychiatric and immigration detention.2 People die in custody in a broad range of circumstances, including:3 * In police and prison cells as a result of medical neglect; * Self-inflicted deaths in prison and police cells; * Following the use of force by police and prison officers-CS spray, U.S.-style batons, firearms, body belts, "neck holds," and other restraint techniques resulting in the inhibition of the respiratory system, asphyxia; and * Homicide in prison.
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MACHIASPORT - passed away Nov. 14, 2011, while surrounded by family, in Bangor, after a brief illness. He was born July 27, 1934, in Washburn, to Thomas and Mary (Learnard) Plissey. Ed was raised with seven siblings on the family farm in Washburn where he developed a passion for farming and the potato. He graduated from Washburn High School in 1952, received his Bachelor of Science degree in agronomy in 1956, a Master of Science degree in botany and plant pathology in 1958 from the University of Maine, Orono, and additional graduate work in ecology at the University of North Dakota. Throughout the years he became one of the country's foremost authorities on potato production. During Ed's career in the potato industry he held many valued leadership roles and took consult...
