Last year, the press zeroed in on a subtle request to the organizers of a sports meeting for handicapped people in Yokohama.

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Before conference organizers closed the doors to the fourth annual meeting of the Canada-U.S. Cross-Border Crime Forum, officials stressed cooperation.

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India's Olympic association plans to lobby for the ban on Dow Chemical's sponsorship, and will decide at its two-day meeting beginning Thursday just how to convey its opposition to the London organizers, said V.

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