Only small amounts of tissue were needed and they were obtained before the current moratorium on Federal support for fetal research.

The House bill would give the coastal states the power to override the current federal moratorium and decide whether they wanted drilling conducted off their coasts.

Japan also wants the current moratorium on whaling to be abolished.

Those efforts would apparently help lift the current moratorium on development at the site.

Ending the current moratorium on tests would sabotage that negotiation before it can begin.

The current moratorium, which has been in force for ten years, is opposed by 55 percent and supported by 28 percent.

The Soviet Union said last month that it would end its current moratorium on testing after the first American test is carried out this year.

Mr. Bush has simply said he favors an extension of the current moratorium on such taxation in order to study the issue.

Leading the first contingent will be Japan and Norway, which want to see the current moratorium on commercial whaling lifted.

Concern of overdevelopment in the Westbury area was a primary reason for the town's imposing the current moratorium, until further assessment can be completed.