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...White House has yet to take a stand on the legislation?and little wonder, given that one of the bill's provisions could lob a monkey wrench into the six-nation talks. President George W. Bush's Administration has recently shown more willingness to parley with North Korea, making carefully hedged offers of oil and other aid in exchange for nuclear disarmament. The bill, however, specifies that the human rights of North Koreans should be "a key element in future negotiations." Diplomats participating in the six-nation talks?which include South Korea and China, a Pyongyang ally?have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Up the Heat | 8/23/2004 | See Source »

...BOAT TOUCHED SAND AND THE RAMP WENT DOWN, I BECAME A VISITOR TO HELL." --Harry Parley Private Parley, 24, carried a flamethrower in the first wave on Omaha Beach with the 116th Infantry Regiment

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-Day: What They Saw When They Landed | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

...purported financial networks. Abdullah received Bush's envoys on Aug. 5 in his As-Salaam palace in the Red Sea port of Jidda just as the afternoon call to prayer sounded. The U.S. group, led by the National Security Council counterterrorism chief, Frances Townsend, soon launched into a parley on the touchy topic. Townsend wanted more cooperation; Abdullah suggested a joint task force. The envoys seized the unexpected offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaming Up Again | 9/1/2003 | See Source »

...Entertainment and Convention Center on March 23 and saw a dream had come true. A sellout crowd of 5,167 had come to watch an NCAA women’s hockey championship game, and thousands more would be watching on television. When the two coaches met for a pregame parley, Miller uttered an appropriate challenge for the evening...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Game of the Year: Duluth Wins National Title in 2OTs | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

...Korea admitted it was violating the 1994 accord by continuing with a secret nuclear-weapons program, triggering a new crisis. This time around, instead of merely threatening to pull out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, North Korea has actually done so. And a new U.S. administration appears disinclined to parley unless North Korea agrees to dismantle its nukes as a precondition to talks. Last week, while warning the U.S. Congress that North Korea could be capable of supplying nuclear weapons to terrorists within months, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage offered assurances that "we're going to have direct talks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spoiling for a Fight? | 2/10/2003 | See Source »

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