March 26, 2004

U.S. Bars Scholars' Trip to Cuban Meeting

By BURTON BOLLAG

U.S. authorities have barred about 70 American medical professors, physicians, and other scholars from traveling to Cuba to attend an international conference on brain injury.

The fourth Symposium on Coma and Death was held this month.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, which is responsible for overseeing restrictions on the travel of American citizens to Cuba, announced at the last moment that the scholars would break the law if they went.

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