Word: pacts
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...competition, indulge its cozy habit of the 35-hour week, defend its privileges tooth and nail, and watch its talented youth go abroad. Or it can shake up the well-protected to give more opportunity to the more vulnerable, slash public spending and reduce debt and modernize its social pact to allow French people - particularly its youth - to believe in the future. In short, France has to topple new Bastilles. The only problem is that these days there are a lot of people sheltering inside...
...State Department so far has had mixed success convincing influential outside observers on the merits of the deal. After receiving a briefing on the pact by State Department officials last week, former Sen. Sam Nunn-an influential Democrat on defense issues who now co-chairs the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a nonproliferation organization-told the Washington Post on Tuesday that if he were still in Congress he'd be "skeptical" of the accord "and looking at conditions that would be attached." On the other hand, the day before former secretary of state Henry Kissinger penned an op-ed article...
India isn't relying on diplomacy to win the U.S. Congress's backing for the controversial nuclear cooperation pact announced by George W. Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi two weeks ago. It's playing the Washington game like the locals do--with lobbyists. Long before Bush's visit, India lined up two lobbying firms to sell the deal. The Indian embassy signed a $700,000 contract last fall with Barbour, Griffith & Rogers, an outfit led by Robert Blackwill, Bush's ambassador to India from 2001 to 2003. The embassy is also paying...
...does the proposed deal cheat those signatories to the NPT who chose to relinquish their claims to nuclear weapons in return for civilian nuclear technology. Those countries agreed to a pact and have reaped the benefits of their decisions for the last several decades. Given that the last thirty-six years have witnessed the end of the Cold War, the fall of the Soviet Union, and a marked growth spurt in eastern economies, it is entirely reasonable for the U.S. and other powers to now reconsider nuclear policies laid out in the late...
...record over the last several decades—including its first nuclear test in 1974, the detonations that spawned sanctions from the U.S. in 1998, and the fact that they never adhered to the NPT. India became a nuclear power acting alone, failing to join or adhere to a pact aimed at ensuring peaceful nuclear development. Through this agreement, the U.S. is tacitly but effectively aiding India, despite its longstanding defiance of the NPT, to develop a better and stronger military nuclear program. Iran and North Korea could not have asked for a better occurrence to defend their respective nuclear...