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...launch pads to scare Japan and the rest of the world. The missile industry could well be shut down if North Korea's Dear Leader Kim Jong Il cuts a deal with the worried West; former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright tried to hurry along such a pact during her visit to Pyongyang in October. In 1994, North Korea mothballed its nuclear weapons program in exchange for oil, aid and a pair of nuclear power reactors from the U.S., Japan and South Korea. A similar trade-off would make it necessary to find new ways to earn cash...
Little known but devastating among the aged is a phenomenon described as chronic suicide. Depressed old people may eat improperly, refuse to take medications and in general passively fail to take care of themselves until they die. Others may enter into a suicide pact with a partner. This usually occurs in response to one partner's developing dementia or being admitted to a nursing home...
DIED. RAY WALSTON, 86, master of quirkily cranky roles; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Walston, who won a Tony playing a stylish Satan in the Broadway musical Damn Yankees, made his own devil's pact by joining the sitcom My Favorite Martian strictly for the cash. Though he later took other roles, he was forever branded as extraterrestrial Uncle Martin. He was so closely identified with the role that in 1996, when NASA thought it had found life on Mars, CBS News wanted to use him in a segment with two astro-scientists...
...weeks of behind-the-scenes wrangling, the United States Senate's temporary majority leader, South Dakota Democrat Tom Daschle, and interim minority leader, Mississippi Republican Trent Lott, announced they had reached a power-sharing agreement designed to balance control in the evenly split chamber - and the Senate approved the pact in a voice vote the same day. Meanwhile, across the way, House Republicans were adjusting to another kind of power-sharing - within their own party...
...Powell, Bush trashed the treaty on the campaign trail and will be tempted to simply ignore General Shalikashvili's arguments. After all, although President Clinton signed the treaty, he lost badly in a Senate vote on ratification, and it's hard to see why a president opposed to the pact would revive...