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...change in the way the White House has handled the Whitewater affair can also be traced in part to polls. As a series of negative disclosures and two high-level resignations rocked the White House last month, Administration officials started telling reporters that most Americans had no idea that Clinton agreed to the appointment of a special counsel and was cooperating fully with his investigation. How did the officials know this? Greenberg told them. Not surprisingly, the President and his aides now go to great lengths to stress their policy of "full disclosure" on Whitewater...
...West spoke back last week in a quieter but no less assertive tone. A third and supposedly climactic round of high-level talks between North Korea and the U.S., to discuss trading diplomatic recognition and economic aid for the North's full compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and other Western demands, was scratched. South Korea put its 633,000 troops on alert. Seoul also accepted an American offer to deploy 48 Patriot missile launchers to defend against North Korean Scud missiles and announced that it had resumed planning for the Team Spirit military exercises with the U.S., suspended...
...miscalculated when it denied the IAEA complete access to the seventh site. Pyongyang is an exceedingly tough bargainer, practiced at extracting rewards time and again for the same concession. This time it tried horse trading access to the seventh site for Seoul's agreement to postpone an exchange of high-level envoys to discuss nuclear questions, something the U.S. opposed. The IAEA, tired of being endlessly diddled, would not buy the deal, a reaction that appears to have surprised the North. "They calculated that the rest of the world would understand" when they balked at a small part...
...been a notorious flash point for tensions. Authorities did not take seriously the threat of settler mayhem, although warning signs were plentiful. And many were asking whether the security forces overreacted in the aftermath of the massacre. Before it is even completed, the inquiry is raising the specter of high-level resignations...
Bruguiere believes that he has established a final link between the killing and Tehran in the person of Gholam Hossein Shoorideh Chirazi Nejad. A well- traveled Iranian businessman with high-level government connections, Shoorideh prevailed upon a visiting Swiss businessman to help two friends get visas by having his company invite them as guests. One of the "friends" was Nasser Ghasmi Nejad, whose real purpose was apparently to rendezvous with Azadi and shepherd him back to Tehran. Shoorideh and Nejad thus joined the list of six alleged co-conspirators, including Azadi, Boyerahmadi, Sheikhattar and Edipsoy, who are to be tried...