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...high-level meetings late last week, FBI officials urged the administration to lower the latest terror threat level from Orange to Yellow on grounds that current intelligence contains no concrete information about active operations or specific terror targets. CIA analysts' warnings that attacks might take place around Feb. 14 to coincide with the end of the Hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Islam's holiest sites, had gone unrealized. Bureau officials worried about the alert's corrosive effects on local law enforcement agencies, already stretched well beyond their budgets, as officers were forced by the heightened alert level to work...
...fact, all of North Korea's neighbors?China, Japan, Russia and South Korea?have been urging the U.S. to abandon its hard-line policy and hold direct talks with Pyongyang. The Bush Administration's frustration that it can't get support from allies only grew last week when a high-level delegation from South Korean President-elect Roh Moo Hyun visited Washington. At one meeting with top U.S. experts on Korea, Yun Young Gwan, a Roh advisor on foreign affairs, stunned his audience by announcing Seoul would rather see North Korea with nukes than see it collapse. Appalled, one participant...
...attack last December and now conduct exercises in the Moscow subway at least once a month. But, says the source, "The bottom line is that we can't do a damn thing should it happen." That's because rescue workers are outfitted with incompatible equipment, thanks to what one high-level staffer calls malpractice in the MCHS procurement office. The MCHS bought chemical defense suits and helmets from two different German firms, the source says, but the respiratory systems from one company don't match the helmets from the other. "The whole set could have been bought from either company...
...title of yokozuna at 22. When he wasn't shoving overmatched opponents around like a human bulldozer, Takanohana?together with his older brother, Wakanohana?charmed the nation with his good looks and pop-star persona. "Taka" had the bluest of sumo blood (both his father and his uncle were high-level wrestlers), but it was his superstar celebrity outside the ring?the magazine covers, the celebrated love affairs, the lurid tabloid details?that humanized the highly traditional sport. "He gave sumo a facelift, a new image," says Akebono, a yokozuna from 1993 to 2001. Sumo wrestlers were just like normal...
...Atomic Energy Agency said it would hold a meeting on Feb. 3 to decide whether to refer the issue to the top U.N. body; South Korea urged a postponement to allow time for diplomats to work on the situation. In Seoul, North and South Korea met for their first high-level talks since the North precipitated the crisis when it withdrew from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty early this month. But after three days of marathon sessions, negotiators struggled to find wording for a final joint communiqué. Officials acknowledged that they had failed to make headway in getting Pyongyang...