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...made "an attempt to corner Brazil." America isn't about to budge on politically vital issues like agriculture subsidies. It hopes to make Brazil back down by painting its defiant stance as reckless international populism. That may be the only way left to salvage the ftaa, a pact the U.S. has long coveted as a guarantee against Latin America (today the U.S.'s second-largest export market) reverting to statist protectionism. But Lula looks unlikely to blink and is "definitely prepared to walk away" from an ftaa, says Michael Connolly, an international-trade expert at the University of Miami. Brazil...
...think the PILOT program is problematic because it ends up making a negotiable pact with organizations such as Harvard and MIT. I think a better way would be to restructure taxes to something based on income...
...threw out inspectors and accelerated its plutonium production. The North is thought to have one or two bombs plus fuel to make up to six. But as Pyongyang watched Bush charge into Iraq, it fretted that it could be next. It demanded that the U.S. sign a nonaggression pact renouncing hostile intent as a prerequisite for a nuclear stand-down. The U.S. said it would strike no bargain unless the North scrapped its nukes first...
MONEY American military assistance to the Philippines has jumped from $38 million in 2001 to $114 million this year?making it the fourth largest recipient of U.S. military aid. Last week President Bush promised development money for the southern island of Mindanao if a peace pact can be secured between Manila and the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front...
...talks had stalled three months ago, with Pyongyang demanding a non-aggression pact as part of a sequence of steps that would include freezing and then scrapping its nuclear weapons program, while the U.S. insisted that North Korea would have to scrap its programs before any concessions could be offered. The hard-line U.S. position was premised on the insistence that North Korea should win no rewards for its extortionist behavior, particularly in light of its failure to adhere to the previous agreement negotiated with the Clinton administration in 1994. Since the day it took office, the Bush administration...