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E.U. members would annually pledge how many people they would be ready to take. Countries that open their doors will get money from the European Refugee Fund - $5,700 per refugee - and support from the newly created European Asylum Support Office, which would meet regularly to define resettlement priorities. The...
Uribe was first elected in 2002 on a campaign pledge to crush the guerrillas. As the rebels retreated, the annual number of displaced persons fell. But now the yearly figures mirror those registered during the most horrific years of the war. Many of the victims have been targeted by a...
Kerry has also emerged as a problem solver on health care. The Obama Administration had rejected Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus' idea to tax some health-care benefits because it would raise taxes on the middle class. When Baucus' panel came up $320 billion short of paying for its...
That status quo now consists of a full-bore pursuit of a nuclear-weapons program - despite a pledge to cease and desist at the so-called six-party talks held during the Bush Administration - as well as a long-range missile development program that continues despite a U.N. resolution calling...
Anyway, Americans usually don't pay much attention to Energy Secretaries, who tend to be political loyalists with little energy expertise; President Ronald Reagan once appointed a dentist to the job. Since its founding during the last energy crisis, in 1977, the DOE has become a bloated backwater of the...