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...home with parallel concessions on other fronts to the Palestinians. He hopes to persuade Arafat to agree to Israeli annexation of parts of the West Bank in which settlements are consolidated, in exchange for offering the Palestinians more land near the Gaza Strip. Whether or not he can coax Arafat into such a deal is an open question. But while Barak may take a little flak for going over the head of his foreign minister, Arafat has no such problems ? the Palestinian leader is a legendary autocrat...
...long-term goals. "People in Hong Kong view this as a sign of increasing intervention and control by Beijing in violation of the ?One Country, Two Systems? principle under which the territory rejoined the mainland," says Dowell. And "One Country, Two Systems," of course, had been designed, ultimately, to coax Taiwan to rejoin the mainland...
Supporters hope the mere threat of joint action will coax HMOs to the bargaining table. It has already perked up frustrated doctors like Gunby. "They may kick me out of their plans," he vows, "but I'll go down fighting." So, no doubt, will managed care...
...doesn?t have time to sit down and talk if there?s no reward involved. Earlier this year the U.S. had to agree to an aid package in order to get access to Northern nuclear facilities; more recently, South Korea had to promise a large shipment of fertilizer to coax its neighbors to talks in Beijing Monday on allowing some 10 million Koreans to reunite with family members they?ve not seen in four decades because of the war. But then bad weather prevented the South Korean freighter carrying the final installment of the fertilizer from sailing Sunday, and North...
...easily suspend the bombing because it knows it may be politically unable to restart it," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "The alliance may even have been planning to intensify the bombing in the hope of making Milosevic more compliant." It had been left to Russia to coax symmetrical concessions out of NATO and Belgrade to kick-start the peace process. While the Chinese embassy bombing may make the West a little more inclined toward peacemaking gestures, the storm of criticism facing NATO may also embolden Milosevic's defiance...