1.   On Friday in Johannesburg, Nelson Mandela, president of the African National Congress, will open a three-day world apartheid conference.

2.   At the groundbreaking world population conference in Cairo five years ago, the United States made commitments to tackle the problem of overpopulation.

3.   Brittan and Goh are attending a world trade conference along with WTO chief Renato Ruggiero and other delegates.

4.   Church officials said neither Smith nor McMurray wanted to comment before the world conference selects a president.

5.   For the first time, its delegation to a major world conference will be led by a woman, in this case an articulate, respected conservative legal scholar.

6.   It wants to end the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and walked out of a world conference against racism in Durban, South Africa, at the end of August.

7.   McCaffrey, who will head the U.S. delegation to a world conference on doping called by the IOC, acknowledged that the situation has given him pause.

8.   She noted that women will be part of a number of official Latin American delegations for the first time at a world population conference.

9.   So one piece in this collection began as the keynote speech at a world conference of theologians.

10.   The other day, for example, I read where the whole point of the world population conference in Cairo was the empowerment of women.