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...While the Bush administration’s scheme to place missile interceptors in Poland and the Czech Republic was admittedly inflammatory, Polish and Czech agreement to the plan reflects a very real concern for the conventional military guarantees included in the pact. Even if the Obama administration does not go ahead with the plan to install defensive systems in these Central European nations, it should still make it clear that any sort of aggression against our allies in this region would be absolutely unacceptable. To that end, the Obama administration should implement a conventional defense treaty with Poland...
...Signed the Kyoto Protocol on his first day in office, fulfilling a campaign pledge and leaving the United States as the only developed nation not to ratify the climate change pact...
...them, there has to be enough evidence to either hold them on warrants or charge them under Iraqi law. Otherwise the new U.S-Iraqi security pact that came into effect in January demands that they be released. "Before, if we felt that we had a good basis to believe the individual was an imperative risk to the security of Iraq, that was good enough," says Quantock. "After 1 January [of this year], it is not." (See pictures from inside Guantanamo...
...wage costs below that of the UAW's. Chrysler's hourly compensation for its Canadian work force, including non-wage benefits such as paid time off, is about $58 (C$75) compared with $55 in the U.S . The Detroit Three have extensive operations in Canada because under the Auto Pact signed in the 1960s, they agreed to make 60% of the cars sold to Canadians in their country. In exchange, tariffs were removed from vehicle imports...
...bill follows a government-sponsored agreement hammered out last November. That deal sought to stem the enormous losses studios and their stars suffer to online piracy. But critics claim ISPs have been coerced into the drive by the organization representing French copyright holders. The pact was negotiated by the head of one of France's largest music and video retailing chains. Detractors of that move include opposition politicians, consumer groups and even France's ethics watchdog on new technologies and communication. They claim that ISPs have been forced into a heavy-handed alliance of industry forces that want to protect...