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...fifth round of talks last week, Yon's spirits took a sudden upturn when his South Korean host and counterpart, Chung Won Shik, dropped an unexpected secret: removal of the last American nuclear weapon on Korean soil was complete. That announcement, long sought by Pyongyang, broke the negotiating logjam. Twenty hours later, following an all- night session, the two sides announced agreement on a nonaggression accord that in effect ended their 41-year-old state of war. Said Chung at the signing ceremony Friday morning: "Today the tide of reconciliation and cooperation flowing worldwide has reached this land...
...break that logjam, two scholars last week issued the first of several unauthorized volumes of the secret scrolls -- cleverly using a computer- generated text. The editors are Professor Ben Zion Wacholder of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati and Martin G. Abegg Jr., one of his doctoral students. They began with a concordance to the scrolls -- an index that lists each word -- prepared under the auspices of the official team in the 1950s but not made available until 1988. As with a Bible concordance, each word was annotated according to its context and location. A desktop computer was used to piece...
...shortcomings. The food industry believes Kessler is pushing too far, too quickly. Consumer activists are waiting to see what he will do about a range of food-safety issues, such as fish inspection, food additives and pesticide residues. Drugmakers are still waiting for the FDA to break the logjam of new drug applications. Approval currently can take as long as three years, and there is a backlog of 271 drugs waiting for FDA action. But Kessler remains confident. "There's nothing that isn't manageable," he says. So far, he's done a good job of making that sound credible...
...desperate effort to bypass the electronic logjam, officers from the U.S.S. Saratoga began running a 200-mile helicopter shuttle from their Red Sea position to Riyadh. There the day's orders were copied onto a floppy disk, flown back to the carrier, transferred to hard drive and distributed...
Stock and commodity exchanges around the world shared the Big Board's near euphoria. A huge logjam of financial uncertainty had been broken. Ever since Iraq's invasion of Kuwait raised the threat of war in the Middle East last August, business in many parts of the globe has suffered because so many decisions have been put on hold. In the U.S. the specter of a major war has created a virtual paralysis in an economy already plagued by recession, deep budget deficits and troubled banks. "It's frightening," said Mitchell Fromstein, CEO of Manpower, the employment-services company...