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...this any way to strike a billion-dollar trade deal? For four years the Conoco company had been negotiating to develop two huge offshore oil fields in Iran, but the deal's managers kept only low-level State Department officials informed of the broad nature of the talks. As a result, just after Conoco and the Iranians reached their agreement this month--but before the Houston-based company had sought approval from senior U.S. officials or board members of DuPont, its corporate parent--the contract flared into a political and diplomatic incident as unwelcome to Conoco as a fire...
...truce to try for a negotiated settlement to the two-month-old civil war. The commander of Moscow's troops in Chechnya, Col. Gen. Anatoly Kulikov, claimed the agreement had averted an all-out massacre. But Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudayev said the pending talks between envoys were too low-level to accomplish anything serious. "You never can stop a war by means of negotiations between commanders," he told reporters. A taste of what's to come: this afternoon, 50 Chechen presidential guards arrived at the talks in southern Russia carrying grenade launchers, machine guns and assault rifles, then piled...
...remaining few cases--a small fraction of the total number, Rosenthal said--are most likely the result of a low-level winter gastroenteritis...
...registered fake names with the ACBL, members say. This enabled him to spread his master points over several accounts, maintain his eligibility for low-level tournaments and receive money for his participation in those compeititions...
...details of the accord were available, but it's likely to build on provisions reached earlier: North Korea will offer to open its nuclear facilities to international inspection and scrap its outdated atomic-energy program. In return, Washington will help in building safer nuclear-power plants and offer low-level diplomatic ties.Search Past Issues "North Korea Deal"; Post to World Affairs "North Korea...