Word: pacts
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...ongoing effort to improve its Scud-killing abilities, the U.S. Air Force last month launched a pair of Scuds--which it secretly obtained from an unspecified Warsaw Pact nation--from American soil for the first time. The firings, from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base out over the Pacific Ocean, were witnessed by U.S. and Israeli defense officials. Sensors on the missiles as well as aboard nearby ships and planes tracked the trajectory of the Scuds. "Because the new Patriot is 'hit to kill,' we need very accurate data on Scud performance," a Pentagon official said...
...wanted to break early decision commitments come to Harvard. But after substantial criticism in the media, Harvard issued a statement this summer saying it expected students who had such commitments to withdraw, and Fitzsimmons said earlier this fall that any student who sought to renege on an early pact would not be allowed to attend...
...through brinkmanship - the North Koreans unveil some new weapon threat and hang tough, and then agree to mothball it in exchange for economic aid. Even now, Pyongyang is sending out mixed messages, brandishing a nuclear threat but also hinting that it would disarm in exchange for a non-aggression pact and other concessions from the U.S. That's not palatable to the Bush Administration, but the alternative is a policy of malign neglect in which North Korea is simply cut off from all aid and allowed to implode - and that's a scenario its neighbors find particularly dangerous. South Korea...
...million barrier and stands at 9.7% of the workforce. The country's leading banks cut their growth forecast to .3% for 2002 and only 1% next year. Germany's state deficit is projected to be 3.75% of gdp, which breaches the limits in the European Stability and Growth Pact. The country is likely to exceed the 3% limit again next year...
...dead. But the question is of critical importance to security officials in Southeast Asia as they assess the likelihood of future attacks and formulate defense plans. Australian police said on Nov. 28 that the five-member team suspected of carrying out the Paddy's attack had formed a suicide pact (although only Iqbal died). Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said indications of suicide elements among Muslim extremists in the region posed "grave challenges" to governments trying to contain the terrorist threat. The day after Goh's warning, suicide car-bombers killed at least 15 people in the Kenyan coastal...