For America will come up with the money only if its fellow-members agree to a new scale of assessment under which the Americans will regularly contribute rather less than they did and a handful of other countries rather more.

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But there will be more conservative members of the Church who would differ in their assessment.

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Also Thursday, the government of Myanmar refused entry to two of four disaster assessment team members who had previously been approved.

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