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...similar groups would ignore the cease-fire because they were not officially signatories to it, Abbas has been remarkably successful in convincing such groups to lay down their arms. After meeting in Gaza with Abbas yesterday, Hamas pledged to stop violence against Israel as part of a general halt in attacks by all militant groups. Hamas even went so far as to foreswear retaliatory actions if Palestinians are attacked by Israel and agreed to consult the Palestinian Authority before taking any reprisals...
...Bush's multilateral strategy for preventing Pyongyang from acquiring nukes has failed just as dramatically as Clinton's policy of direct engagement did a decade ago. It means that even when they are united, Beijing, Moscow, Tokyo, Seoul and Washington haven't found the right combination of levers to halt nuclear proliferation by a rogue state. And it probably means that even if the U.S. and its allies can coax Pyongyang back into negotiations--a big if--their hand is weakened by what the declaration described as Kim's "arsenal." At a time when the Bush Administration is trying...
...says Pyongyang's tactics are designed to stall for time and force concessions from outsiders before sitting down to talk again. The only way to counter it, he believes, is to take swift action both jointly and alone. Japan, he argues, could cut off all shipping; South Korea could halt its many industrial and tourism projects with the North; the U.S. could again press for economic sanctions at the U.N. And the Chinese, Lilley says, could "go to the North Koreans, put their arms around their shoulders, kiss them on both cheeks and then whisper in their ears...
...supplies, lifts the economic embargo, and removes the North from Washington's list of terrorist-sponsoring states. The U.S. has been down that road before with the 1994 Agreed Framework, which it claims North Korea violated. Washington's position is that North Korea must first take concrete steps to halt its nuclear program before it receives any rewards...
...game looking very businesslike after its shocking loss to Dartmouth on Friday night, and—after a series of crisp offensive sets yielded several layups and open threes—held a 14-9 lead with 10:32 to play. But Rogus checked in from downtown to halt a 7-2 Tigers run, igniting the capacity crowd of 2,030, and sending Harvard on a hot stretch that would see it grab a 28-22 halftime lead...