Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations for 1997 and Supplemental for 1996: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session, Part 4

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Page 176 - Earlier at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo in September 1994...
Page 139 - ... to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbors, and to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security, and to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest...
Page 444 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Page 427 - The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
Page 350 - In no case should abortion be promoted as a method of family planning. All Governments and relevant intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations are urged to strengthen their commitment to women's health, to deal with the health impact of unsafe abortion as a major public health concern and to reduce the recourse to abortion through expanded and improved family-planning services. Prevention of unwanted pregnancies must always be given the highest priority and every attempt should be made to...
Page 128 - The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world.
Page 128 - There can be no peace without law. And there can be no law if we were to invoke one code of international conduct for those who oppose us and another for our friends.
Page 354 - Nevertheless, the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate.
Page 139 - ... all members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations. " UN Charter article 2(4) is the provision Iraq violated by its invasion of Kuwait; b. the North Atlantic Treaty article 1 which states that "the Parties undertake... to refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force in any manner...

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