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...been jailed, as he was in 1983. There are other examples of official softening: Hanoi recently recognized the formerly banned Protestant Christian churches and the Hua Hao Buddhist sect. U.S. Ambassador Pete Peterson, who flew to Washington last week to lobby for the trade agreement, believes blocking the trade accord would send the wrong message. "The greatest thing we can do for human rights," he says, "is to increase economic activity...
...umlaut the o's on the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. The protocol was devised to curb the industrial emission of six gases, CO2 among them, that are slowly--actually quickly in geological terms--turning the earth into a hothouse. But no final accord was reached...
...Clean Air Act. This by-the-book rationalization is, of course, entirely at odds with the growing consensus among scientists that carbon gases are causing global warming, and puts the U.S. on a collision course with most of the international community, which has been pressing, through the Kyoto Accord on Climate Change, to curb carbon-gas outputs. The U.S. is by far the world's largest contributor to this problem, producing somewhere between 25 and 30 percent of the planet's carbon gases despite constituting less than 5 percent of its population...
...whose problems in choosing the words that best convey his ideas can prove to be a killer liability in international diplomacy, where a leader's every word is parsed for nuance by friend and foe. For the record, the U.S. has only one agreement with North Korea - the 1994 accord to stop the production of weapons-grade nuclear fuel in exchange for assistance by Japan, South Korea and the U.S. in developing alternative energy sources (including a series of lower-grade nuclear reactors). And as U.S. officials hurried to emphasize immediately after Bush's statement, Washington has no evidence that...
...Republic of Congo, where they back rebel movements inside the country. Rwanda pulled out more than 2,000 troops while Uganda began the withdrawal of 1,500. The pullbacks are the most significant step toward peace since war broke out in the former Za?re in 1998. A peace accord signed in 1999 was broken almost immediately...