THE GENEVA CONVENTION.

Status of Taliban Forces under Article 4 of the Third Geneva Convention of 1949

You have asked for our Office’s views concerning the status of members of the Taliban militia under Article 4 of the 1949 Geneva Convention (III) Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (“GPW”). Assuming the accuracy of various facts provided to us by the Department of Defense (“DoD”), we conclude that the President has reasonable factual grounds to determine that no members of the Taliba...

The Geneva Vision System

Brucellosis summit in Geneva.

The sixth meeting of the Joint FAD/WHO Expert Committee on Brucellosis, which was held in Geneva from 12to 19 November 1985, received a great deal less publicity than the USA-USSR political summit taking place nearby. Nevertheless, the Committee discussed important worldwide issues affecting human and animal health and reviewed the developments in brucellosis which have occurred since 1970, whe...

Geneva Biomedical Research Institute

In 1980 Mark Ptashne published a review entitled How λ repressor and Cro work followed by another, in 1988, called How eukaryotic transcriptional activators work. The bold — almost, some might feel, naïve — ambition these titles betray is unashamedly the author’s: to generate a coherent picture of how genes are switched on and off. Mark Ptashne’s approach has always been transparent. During gro...

Geneva Photometric Passbands from the Natural System

Previous determinations of the passband functions were based on the reduced results of the Geneva photometric system as available in the published catalogs. Initially the Geneva system was deened as a natural (i.e. without nor-malization to zero for a given spectral type) extraatmospheric system. In some cases, however, we need the reduction coeecients for transformation of colors to the primev...