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...several concessions. Strikes, a major time-waster, are prohibited, as are protests. Workers agreed to work at somewhat unusual hours so as not to disturb Yard or neighborhood residents. And--the money-saving part--workers agree to take a 10 percent wage cut on all renovations under the pact...
...eleventh hour, North Korea agreed late on Friday to "suspend" its withdrawal from the pact, pulling Asia back from the start of a nuclear arms race. If Pyongyang will permanently rejoin the treaty and agree to inspections, the U.S. is ready to cancel its yearly military exercises with South Korea and make a "no first use" pledge not to initiate the use of nuclear weapons on the peninsula. While U.S. officials are still puzzled by North Korea's actions, they say they now realize how deeply inspections disturbed its closed society...
...blandishments will keep Pyongyang honest -- even if it remains formally in the nonproliferation pact -- if its real intent is to free itself from international oversight while it pursues its nuclear dream. North Korea may have temporized to forestall U.N. economic sanctions that loomed if it became the first member to quit the treaty. But most observers are pessimistic that Kim will really cave in to political or economic pressure. "We're not dealing with rational people but with an unreconstructedly Stalinist regime," says a top British diplomat. "They don't believe in compromise but in maximum advantage...
PARIS -- French intelligence sources are worried about reports that the Russian mob (now enjoying a postcommunist boom) has made a deal with its Italian counterpart. The secret pact, the reports say, calls for the Italian Mafia to funnel drugs to the Russians in exchange for sophisticated armaments, perhaps even nuclear weapons. The arms, stolen or purchased from no-longer- Soviet arsenals in the southern Muslim republics, would then be resold to dangerous elements in Iraq, Iran, Syria and Libya...
...return, Harvard asked for several concessions: The unions forfeit their right to strike or protest the work; union workers also give up the increase in wages usually paid on night shifts; and, among other concessions, workers take a 10 percent pay cut on all renovation work covered by the pact...