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...Still, Washington is sending signals to the North that if it comes back to the six-party talks unconditionally, negotiations conceivably could yield real benefits for Pyongyang in the form of security guarantees from the U.S. and a host of economic rewards. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said last week that "staying away is a problem for North Korea," but there will be "benefits that they might anticipate from solving [the nuclear] issue." But U.S. officials concede that it's going to take time to get the five other participants?Japan and Russia being the other two powers?to come...
Yesterday, U.S. State Department Spokesman Richard Boucher announced that the State Department has recalled the ambassador to Syria, Margaret Scobey, for “urgent consultations” in Washington. Before leaving, Scobey delivered a message to the Syrian government expressing the United States’ “deep concern as well as our profound outrage over this heinous act of terrorism,” according to a press release on the State Department website...
...Boucher, an electrician with the in-house maintenance professionals working for Harvard’s Facilities and Maintenance Operations (FMO), said his job gives him stability that he would not get from an outside employer...
...Medical School made a decision on their own that they no longer wanted [to work with the FMO],” Boucher says. “They wanted to go with an outside contractor. I guess you could say that the Law School, or the Business School, could say the same thing tomorrow...
Boucher’s comment came as he was defending the State Department’s last minute decision to deny visas to 65 Cuban scholars heading for a conference in Las Vegas. According to Boucher, it was in the interest of the United States to suppress the free exchange of information because the “so-called academics” were mere hacks coming to “spout the party line.” As such, it was in the national interest to make sure the Cuban government would “feel the pressure...