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Iran's economic crisis may be endangering its nuclear energy program, which the U.S. fears is a stepping-stone to the development of nuclear weapons. Negotiations for Chinese reactors are stalled over lack of money. Russia is selling Iran a light-water reactor -- despite U.S. objections -- for $1 billion, but Tehran is half a billion dollars in arrears with its payments for other Russian imports...
North Korea's delegation rejected a U.S. proposal to keep currentnuclear negotiationsalive and instead returned to Pyongyang today. Talks broke down over the issue of replacing North Korea's gas-graphite reactor with light-water models manufactured by South Korea. The plan offends North Korea's sense of propriety explainsTIME Diplomatic correspondent J.F.O. McAllister: "This may be their typical tactic of going back on an agreement or they may really be drawing a line in the sand." It is not yet clear whether North Korea will abandon its stand-still agreement with the U.S. andresume nuclear weapons development...
...announced that the team, after six weeks of feverish activity, had successfully moved the material to the Oak Ridge nuclear-storage facility in Tennessee. Over the next several months, the Energy Department will entertain offers from private industry to turn the highly enriched uranium into lower- grade commercial reactor fuel. The Administration touted the mission as a good reason to keep money flowing to the beleaguered Nunn-Lugar account. The fund -- named for sponsors Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia and Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana -- is a congressional appropriation that finances denuclearization in the states of the former Soviet Union...
...lunch with the Overseas Press Club later, Zhirinovsky added a kicker: an allegation that the1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster was an act of sabotage by certain KGB agents intent on destroying confidence in Soviet technology.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
...what of our most critical, nonnegotiable demand, that North Korea ship out of the country the plutonium-laden fuel rods that it brazenly removed from its reactor in May in defiance of the sternest U.S. warnings? From these rods North Korea can make half a dozen Hiroshimas. Did we get them? No. We got more promises. The rods, we are assured, will be out -- in the next century...