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...North Korea proposal, but signaled that it would involve a multilateral written guarantee to respect Pyongyang's sovereignty, signed by all five parties to the talks with Kim Jong Il's government - South Korea, Japan, China, Russia and the U.S. The President reiterated that a formal non-aggression pact between the U.S. and North Korea, as demanded by Pyongyang, is "off the table." (Even if the administration had been inclined to offer such a deal, it would not easily win ratification in the Senate.) Still, the very fact that Washington is now offering some form of security guarantee to Pyongyang...
...attacks. The only solution that I see is that the U.S. should put as much pressure as they can on China to be more involved in the crisis. It is the Chinese government that enables the North Koreans' Stalinist system to continue to exist with their military pact with them. Heath Francis Canberra, Australia...
...something of a stretch. That leaves a lot of pain still to be administered and endured. Next year's budget, like this year's and last year's, remains out of line with the 3% deficit limit imposed by the E.U.'s Stability and Growth Pact. Raffarin has dismissed the pact as "mathematics," but smaller states that have done their fiscal homework aren't amused. Yet making France pay a fine during an economic slump could hurt its neighbors, too. "We're ready to do what the Commission demands," Budget Minister Alain Lambert said last week, "as long...
...don’t know if the U.S. is ready to make a deal,” said Carter, adding that President Bush’s emphasis on “moral clarity” might prevent him from reaching a pact with Kim Jong Il, even if the nuclear issue is resolved...
After many breathless months of stalled negotiations and strikes, the pact reached last Thursday by Yale and two striking labor unions will provide long overdue relief to a campus divided. The contract will give clerical, maintenance and dining hall workers generous raises over its eight year span—retroactive to the time the last contract expired—as well as increase pension payments for the workers...