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...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...
...From the moment the Zapatistas marched out of the Lacandon jungle on New Year's Day in 1994, Marcos styled himself an enemy of the North American Free Trade Accord (NAFTA), and his recent speeches include attacks on the market-oriented approach embraced by Fox, a former Coca-Cola executive. Exactly what Marcos would replace it with remains unclear...
...African leaders met to discuss the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo and recommit themselves to the peace accord signed 18 months ago and broken ever since. But the presidents of Rwanda and Uganda, which both back Congolese rebel groups and have their own troops in the vast central African country, refused to attend. In a small breakthrough, Congolese President Joseph Kabila said he would accept the former Botswanan leader, Ketumile Masire, as a mediator. Joseph's father, the former Congolese President Laurent-Desire Kabila, who was assassinated last month, had rejected Masire's involvement...
...Bush Administration. "We intend to show that Israel needs a security process as well as a peace process," says Dore Gold, the former Israeli ambassador to the U.N. who is one of Sharon's messengers. The Sharon "security process" will probably aim to ink another interim accord and leave the issues that toppled Barak for much, much later. Says Gold: "To continue with the old diplomatic approach would be like hammering square pegs into round holes." Sharon might be forgiven for thinking of his coalition in the same way. Even after the biggest electoral victory in Israel's history, square...
When the possibilities seemed bleakest and the committee began roll-call votes on a doomed version of the accord, D'Alessandro whispered, "Please don't do this...