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...which the act seems to be based—that we have a unilateral right to begin a war against any country that cannot prove to us that it has no highly dangerous weapons, no matter what the rest of the world thinks. Since we obviously would not accord that right to anyone else, it rests on an assumption that we are good by definition and those we attack are evil. I make no case for the miserable Iraqi leaders, but there have always been authoritarian governments with dangerous weapons and plans to get even more dangerous ones and that...
...October, North Korea admitted it was violating the 1994 accord by continuing with a secret nuclear-weapons program, triggering a new crisis. This time around, instead of merely threatening to pull out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, North Korea has actually done so. And a new U.S. administration appears disinclined to parley unless North Korea agrees to dismantle its nukes as a precondition to talks. Last week, while warning the U.S. Congress that North Korea could be capable of supplying nuclear weapons to terrorists within months, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage offered assurances that "we're going to have...
IVORY COAST Last Chance Treaty President Laurent Gbagbo went on national television to endorse a French-brokered peace accord that he signed with rebel forces. His speech may pave the way for the end of the four-month-old civil war. Earlier, the French government sent 450 more troops to bring its forces in the country up to about 3,000. Most are likely to protect the pro-government commercial capital, Abidjan, and the 12,000 French citizens still in the country...
DaimlerChrysler and Ford have for years offered systems for extending seat belts. Honda has made the seats of its Civic and Accord two inches wider in response to customer requests. Car companies are starting to think ahead about this trend, perhaps because dealing with design problems after a product has been brought to market can be costly. Volvo recalled 65,000 station wagons for repairs when it learned that heavy passengers might short-circuit a heating mechanism in their seats, starting a fire...
...Year's gift to grocery shoppers on both sides of the Rio Grande, the U.S. and Mexico on Jan. 1 eliminated most of their remaining tariffs on agricultural products, under provisions of the NAFTA accord. But many of Mexico's farmers are trying to stem the flood of heavily subsidized U.S. produce, especially apples, pork and chicken parts. Last month thousands of Mexican protesters threatened to block border crossings, and a few burst into their country's Congress on horseback. U.S. poultry producers, concerned that Mexico will erect such nontariff barriers as additional health inspections on chicken, have worked with...