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...scenario that Nepal's neighbor, India, which has an open border with the kingdom, particularly fears. Earlier last week, New Delhi dispatched two envoys to Kathmandu to persuade Gyanendra to compromise-and welcomed his Friday statement. Gyanendra's offer, said Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Navtej Sarna, "should now pave the way for restoration of political stability...
...American athletes head to China as part of a policy of "Ping-pong diplomacy." They pave the way for U.S. President Richard Nixon's historic visit to China. Seven years later, Washington normalizes relations with Beijing, and severs official diplomatic ties with Taiwan...
...corrupt and ingenious. Stand on a corner some morning in Laredo, Texas, and watch the first of 8,000 trucks a day hauling the global economy north and south, 18-wheelers full of bulldozer claws and baby cribs, all passing through a town that once didn't bother to pave the streets. Now it can't pour concrete fast enough. The banks are open 7 to 7, seven days a week; the pager shops are everywhere. All the roads are being widened, their shoulders littered with pieces of blown-out tires. Locals say you are not really a borderlander until...
...from the agriculture industry to legalize a huge portion of its workforce. Three days before the Senate Judiciary Committee voted on a modified version of the Kennedy-McCain bill, Kennedy's and Feinstein's staffs worked out a path to citizenship for illegal agricultural workers, a deal that would pave the way for unlawful immigrants working other jobs. Where Bush will come down is unknown. The President has supported a guest-worker plan but has not fully embraced the idea of making illegal immigrants citizens. "We're not exactly there together, but we've spoken about it," Kennedy says. Will...
...taste for fake Viagra and knockoff fashion, but has resisted using trade mechanisms to force a crackdown on piracy?until now. Last week, Washington invoked a seldom-used World Trade Organization rule to demand that Beijing explain what it's doing to enforce intellectual property rights. The move could pave the way for a WTO case against China. "If China believes that it is doing enough to protect intellectual property," U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman said last week, "then it should view this process as a chance to prove its case...