31.   Opponents said by denying visas, the government would be preventing important dialogue between the U.S. and China.

32.   Potential troublemakers, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ramos Horta of Burma, have been denied visas to attend a competing forum.

33.   Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Woodland Hills, agreed that reforms are needed, but not necessarily by denying visas to high-ranking officials.

34.   Rwanda then denied a visa to the war crimes prosecutor, Carla Del Ponte, who had planned a visit to Rwanda, her first, this week.

35.   Seeking to demonstrate its evenhandedness, the administration also announced Friday that it would deny visas to guerrilla leaders to punish the movement for recent kidnappings and economic sabotage.

36.   Simply to allow Adams to visit the United States, the White House twice had to waive a ban that denies visas to representatives of terrorist organizations.

37.   That means a businessman from Spain, for example, whose company purchased a confiscated property could be denied a visa to the United States.

38.   The administration also criticized the provision that would deny visas to any foreigner who uses or profits from property that the Cuban government expropriated from an American.

39.   The administration has strongly opposed the measure, asserting that China could retaliate by denying visas to many Americans.

40.   The bill calls, among other things, for denying visas to any foreign executive whose company buys or uses expropriated American property in Cuba.