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...never wanted a life in politics. But her husband did, so she gave it her all. "I do or die," she once said, "but I never cancel out." She was such the perfect wife and mother -- pressing his pants, making dresses for daughters Tricia and Julie, doing her own housework even as the Vice President's wife -- that she was tagged "Plastic Pat." Washington sophisticates just didn't get it: that was the real Pat Nixon doing those homely family tasks, loving the life that had always been on the other side of the candy-store window. Far from plastic...
...eleventh hour, North Korea agreed late on Friday to "suspend" its withdrawal from the pact, pulling Asia back from the start of a nuclear arms race. If Pyongyang will permanently rejoin the treaty and agree to inspections, the U.S. is ready to cancel its yearly military exercises with South Korea and make a "no first use" pledge not to initiate the use of nuclear weapons on the peninsula. While U.S. officials are still puzzled by North Korea's actions, they say they now realize how deeply inspections disturbed its closed society...
Doing nothing about the North Korean bomb is a bad option too. South Korea was well along in the development of nuclear weapons in the 1970s until the U.S. pressured Seoul to cancel its program. It could quickly and easily change course again. A nuclear arsenal in North Korea "could result in the dissemination of nuclear weapons throughout the region," says Christophe Carle, research fellow at the Institut Francais des Relations Internationales in Paris. "I can't imagine Japan and South Korea and Taiwan refraining from doing so short of extraordinary U.S. assurances." An East Asia in which six powers...
State Department officials believe a copy of Khartoum's cable was sent to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, but the INS says it has not found it. All sides agree, however, that when the Khartoum embassy failed to cancel the visa, Washington should have been alerted so that it could tell INS to put Sheik Abdel Rahman on its own watch list. In April 1991 the immigration service made an unexplained error when it gave the sheik a green card attesting permanent resident status, although his visa by then had been revoked and he was in the U.S. illegally...
...cancel a commitment to address the University of Texas at Austin, speaking for half an hour without notes and with uncharacteristic emotion. She cited the observations of Bush campaign manager Lee Atwater as he lay dying from a brain tumor at age 40: "My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me -- a little heart, a lot of brotherhood . . . And to see that we must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul." She posed the questions...