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...agreement took its reactors offline. It may also have as much as 500 tons of chemical and biological agents. But even without unconventional weapons, North Korea's artillery and medium-range missiles give it the capability to flatten most of Seoul in a matter of minutes. Analysts suggest that an all-out war along the Korean frontier could cost a million lives on both sides. And those in the frontline - the South Koreans and Japanese - have stressed they have no desire for confrontation with Pyongyang...
...oppose a pre-emptive U.S. war are pushing a compromise plan: a new system of "coercive" inspections, under which the U.N. Security Council would call for weapons monitors to return to Iraq backed by a U.S.-led military force that could shoot its way into suspicious facilities or mount an all-out invasion if Iraqi recalcitrance persisted. "It's comply or else," says retired Air Force General Charles Boyd, an advocate of coercive inspections. "We say to Saddam, 'You can submit to unfettered inspections, or you can have an invasion of your country...
...statute providing a series of three checks and balances, the ability of the U.N. Security Council to overrule a prosecutor’s decision and individual states’ sovereign maintenance of jurisdiction should they prefer to try an individual themselves. Yet the U.S. has almost threatened an all-out invasion of the Netherlands if an American is ever brought before...
...report on the continuing violence in the Middle East [WORLD, July 1], Matt Rees asserts that no matter what Israel tries, Palestinian suicide bombers keep blowing up themselves and others. But the one thing that Israel has not yet tried is an all-out effort to help the Palestinians create a safe and prosperous nation. The Israelis could remove their settlements from Palestinian land and withdraw to U.N.-sanctioned borders. They could stop using weapons to destroy buildings and instead invest in building a Palestinian state. This strategy would be bold and courageous. There would be no guarantee of success...
FANTASTIC VOYAGES. On Dec. 31, 2000, six high-performance, state-of-the-art sailboats set off on the first ever all-out, no-limits sailing race around the world. Melville wouldn't have recognized them: today's racing sailboats consist of two ultralight carbon-fiber hulls stuffed full of computers, with a trampoline strung between them for a deck. In Tim Zimmerman's account of the competition, titled simply The Race, stir-crazy, sleep-deprived crews sail these wind-powered funny cars across the sea at 40 knots (about 45 m.p.h.), swerving wildly around icebergs, battling e-mail viruses...