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...want to make sure all scholars understand the serious consequences of this decision,” said Coatsworth, who led the forum along with Domínguez and Barberia. “The only people really disadvantaged, in a way, are scholars in the U.S., who need to know something about Cuba and who will suffer from this isolation...
...lieu of the Cuban scholars, 65 empty chairs adorned a conference room on Friday night in a forum titled “Academic Freedom and Scholarly Exchange with Cuba” to protest the decision...
...Cuban researchers, writers and editors were slated to discuss The Cuban Economy at the Start of the 21st Century, a new book on the Cuban economy that will be published by the Rockefeller Center in November. But the forum was abruptly canceled after a last-minute decision by the State Department to deny visas to all 65 of the Cubans...
...crew for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was on hand last night at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum as an impressive roster of political pundits and former high-ranking government officials argued the merits of the United States’ policies at home and abroad...
Actually, the Chinese would welcome direct U.S.-North Korea talks as a second forum for pressuring Pyongyang to drop its nuclear-weapons program. China offered to arrange such discussions during talks in Beijing in June among the so-called six parties: the U.S., North Korea, South Korea, China, Japan and Russia. So why was Bush so adamant that bilateral talks would be a "big mistake"? He believes any unilateral concession, such as agreeing to Pyongyang's demand for bilaterals, weakens the U.S. position in nuclear-disarmament talks...