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...seem unlikely that Taylor was going to continue to pursue an Olympic career, especially after she was offered a high-level position with The Gap following her completion of the executive training program. Instead, she decided to move to Chula Vista, Calif., to train at the Olympic Training Center, in the hopes of making the Olympic team...
...concern is that possessing a nuclear-armed sub might make Pyongyang even less willing to freeze its nuclear weapons program. Pyongyang scoffed at a U.S. suggestion last month that it follow Libya's example by abandoning its nukes, calling the American offer a "sham." And the North has canceled high-level talks with Seoul, accusing it of kidnapping the 468 North Korean defectors who arrived in the South last week via Vietnam. Another round of multilateral talks on the North's nuclear program is due to start in September, but the chances of success seem slimmer than ever, says...
...possible messages between plotters but analyzing information more quickly to determine what is just radical railing and what has substantial hidden meaning," says French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard. Despite the continued debate over the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, CIA and FBI officials insist that some high-level detainees have proved valuable in decoding talk among operatives. The war in Afghanistan and the global dragnet have taken out of circulation about half of bin Laden's senior lieutenants. "The kinds of people who are coming in simply can't match their predecessors and their ability...
...Never Mind SAUDI ARABIA A grand total of six Islamic militants surrendered under a month-long amnesty offered to al-Qaeda supporters. Officials had expected a greater number to turn themselves in, but said they were still negotiating with several high-level militants...
...torture" described efforts by the Bush Administration to reshape the U.S. stance on the torture of prisoners during interrogation [June 21]. Have we sunk to the level of those we are fighting-those who we say are using immoral methods? I never thought I would see the day when high-level U.S. government agencies would be exchanging memos attempting to justify actions that Americans would condemn if perpetrated by others. I remember the outrage that we felt during the Korean War when the North Koreans were accused of brainwashing American prisoners. Similar activities were decried in subsequent wars...