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Signing Jimmy Carter's Camp David Accord...
...North Korea signed a historic accord that aims to make nuclear tension between the two countries a thing of the past. Chief U.S. negotiator Robert L. Gallucci and his North Korean counterpart, Kang Sok Ju, penned the documents at North Korea's diplomatic mission to the United Nations today. Included in the deal: North Korea opens up its hush-hush nuke program in return for technology for modern reactors, aid and diplomatic links with...
...into North Korea's nuke program won't start for five years. That's enough time for Kim Jong Il, the new chief in Pyongyang, to embark on a whole new nuke program if he so chooses -- and to do so with U.S. loans that come with today's accord. "A lot of people are holding their breath," says Thompson...
...myriad looted artworks left over from the war, there is only one ethical course open to the Russian authorities: they must honor Russia's signature on the 1954 and 1990 accords and let the works go back to Germany -- on condition that the Germans return a proportionate amount of the things they swiped. It would be intolerable for President Yeltsin to give in to the pressure of the ultranationalists and nostalgic apparatchiks who want to keep the looted art in Russia as "reparations." Theft is theft. But there may be capital to be made from letting...
...that should resolve the conflict between the two countries over Pyongyang's nuclear program. Robert L. Gallucci, the chief American negotiator, said a draft would be sent to both capitals for approval from lawmakers, and a final document will probably be signed in Geneva on Friday. News of the accord was an abrupt reversal from just yesterday, when talks between the two countries were cut off. No details of the accord were available, but it's likely to build on provisions reached earlier: North Korea will offer to open its nuclear facilities to international inspection and scrap its outdated atomic...