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...evil, they're mighty dangerous. What should the Bush Administration do about them? Whatever it can, without searching for a spurious consistency in its approach to widely differing situations. In Iraq, as we know, that means using the U.N. inspections regime, backed by the possible use of force, to insist on Baghdad's disarmament. In North Korea, where military action is too dangerous--given the proximity of Seoul to Northern artillery--it means persuading those who have protected Pyongyang in the past to isolate it now. Practically, that means talking to Beijing--Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage was there...
...decision not to run, Gore says, took shape over many weeks and months, taking into account several factors, not the least of which was the last campaign's toll on his personal life. Then there were the political considerations: many, including Gore himself, insist the only way the Democrats - and the rest of the country - can escape the memory of the 2000 election is by crafting an entirely fresh ticket. And there are Democrats to whom the idea of bringing Gore back for another round was tantamount to surrender to a Bush reelection drive...
...Most of the Security Council is unlikely to agree that an incomplete declaration is, in itself, a basis for triggering a war, and they'd insist that the falsehoods that Britain and the U.S. allege the declaration contains must be verified by the UNMOVIC weapons inspection teams currently in Iraq. Although UNMOVIC chief Dr. Hans Blix is due to make a preliminary assessment of Iraq's declaration at a Security Council session today, UN officials are stressing the preliminary nature of that discussion and warning that no action should be expected from the session. UNMOVIC is scheduled on January...
...tons of mustard-gas materials that have not been accounted for--and, just as important, what is not on the list. It will measure Iraq's veracity by comparing its list with the one the CIA has in its pocket. Administration officials, from the President on down, continued to insist last week that they had "solid" evidence--which they had never made public--that Saddam did too have an extensive armory for mass murder. U.N. officials have repeatedly asked Bush to make that intelligence available to help the inspectors. The U.S., which preferred to let Iraq come forward with...
...smelt. Still, with the project costing taxpayers an estimated $39 million and an additional dam still scheduled to go up just 40 kilometers away, the Arase dam's deconstruction may only prove that the Japanese government can spend money even when it's removing something. But some observers insist this could be the first crack in the nation's overpriced fa?ade. Says Takayoshi Igarashi, a professor at Hosei University in Tokyo and an expert on Japan's public spending: 'This is a revolutionary change. There have been some cases to stop dam construction, but this is one step forward.' Perhaps...