The Nation - News from March 29, 1988

The House approved a bill that would make it easier for a parent to recover a child who is abducted and taken to a foreign country, often by the other parent. The bill, passed by voice vote and sent to the Senate, would enable the United States to implement a treaty intended to overcome time-consuming legal issues blocking the prompt return of abducted children from a foreign country. The United States signed the treaty in 1981. Although it was approved by the Senate in 1986, the United States has not ratified the pact because the State Department said implementing legislation was needed.