Health care experts say it is not surprising that the issue has re-emerged this year.

On a separate - but equally troubling - front, the issue of garbage washing ashore has re-emerged this summer.

While the European plans for peacekeeping have been delayed for now at the insistence of the American military, the peacekeeping issue could re-emerge.

The issue re-emerged in 1973, when Wilson Bryan Key published Subliminal Seduction, a study of the lascivious messages tucked away in ice cubes.

The issue of race relations has re-emerged with a vengeance on a campus where one-quarter of the students belong to minority groups.

That issue re-emerged in a new form several weeks ago when members of Congress complained about plans by America Online, the computer data service, to sell its customer lists to direct marketers.

The issue has re-emerged and been under discussion, as a result of issuance of larger banknotes in 2003.

Some casino industry representatives say the issue will re-emerge despite a Federal law enacted in 1992 that banned sports betting in any state that did not already have it.

But the statements today represented an unusual public confirmation at a time when the issue has re-emerged.

The issue re-emerged with the reunification of Germany in 1990.