81.   The initial version of the bill also banned foreign control of radio stations, newspapers and magazines, but those provisions were removed before its final passage.

82.   The Senate passed a similar measure last year as part of an appropriations bill but the provision was later removed.

83.   The White House, which has called parts of a draft declaration anti-Semitic, said American diplomats would leave the conference if the provisions were not removed.

84.   This week, Senate Republicans led by Majority Leader Trent Lott threatened to remove the provision from the Senate bill as well.

85.   Those provisions were removed in the final version.

86.   We hope that the anti-disclosure provisions are removed from the defense bill before it becomes law.

87.   Washington believes the EU offer on the table will not remove discriminatory provisions against non-EU investors in France, Spain, Belgium, Italy and Portugal.