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Page 105 - RFE/RL and the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the Department of State. The...
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Page 170 - CENTER— officially known as the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West — is a national educational institution established in Hawaii by the US Congress in 1960 to promote better relations and understanding between the United States and the nations of Asia and the Pacific through cooperative study, training, and research.
Page 165 - ... workers in the United States who are able, willing, qualified^ and available at the time of application for a visa and admission to the United States and at the place to which the alien is destined to perform such skilled or unskilled labor, and (B) the employment of such aliens will not adversely affect the wages and working conditions of the workers in the United States similarly employed.
Page 120 - ... \^Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil : there is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides ; it is when they attend only to one that errors harden into prejudices, and truth itself ceases to have the effect of truth, by being exaggerated into falsehood...
Page 163 - ... of a United States citizen, or of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, or of an alien who has been issued an immigrant visa, under the conditions set out in section 212 (g), and implementing regulations.
Page 91 - Rights particular situations which appear to reveal a consistent pattern of gross and reliably attested violations of human rights requiring consideration by the Commission; 6.
Page 20 - States in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such parties do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each of the parties to such conspiracy shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
Page 7 - This concludes my statement, Mr Chairman. I will be glad to answer any questions the Committee may have.
Page 321 - Assembly resolution 3343 (XXIX) and other relevant decisions, including the report of the Group of Experts on the Structure of the United Nations System...