CORRECTION: A May 22 story on the Genocide Convention stated that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in a vote of 9-8 approved ratification of the treaty. The breakdown should have referred to a prior vote in the same committee session on the adoption of reservations in the ratification bill. The vote to move the bill to the Senate floor was 10-0 with seven abstentions.
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