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...submit to a tough inspection and verification regime. At the same time all four countries expect Washington to assuage North Korean concerns, particularly through offering Pyongyang security guarantees - in other words, to get a deal on nuclear weapons, the Bush Administration will have to swear an oath to refrain from pursuing the overthrow of the regime of Kim Jong Il. But guaranteeing the security of a charter member of President Bush's "Axis of Evil" sticks in the craw of many in the Administration...
...question of what exactly the U.S. will offer North Korea is not yet settled in Washington. Hawks are reluctant to see the U.S. promise to leave Kim's regime intact, and are able to point to North Korea's systematic violation of its previous agreement to refrain from going nuclear to question the validity of pursuing a new deal. They also suspect North Korea will use a protracted negotiation process to buy time to complete its nuclear program...
...compensation, there's not much: new employees at Bank One ballpark start at $7 or $8 an hour. But few seem to mind. "Just having fun" is the common refrain heard among these boys and girls of summer. "I tell everyone, when they ask me how I'm doing, that every day's a holiday," says Remlinger. Gustafson agrees: "How hard can it be when you're at a ball game...
...France, as did tens of millions of dollars in aid. In 1781 British commanding General Charles Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown to a greater number of French than American troops. For the better part of his years in France, Franklin heard little from Congress aside from variations on a single refrain: the war hung by French assistance alone. As Robert Morris wrote, "In a word, Sir, we must have it, or we are undone...
...hudna is a source of alarm rather than comfort for the Israelis. They insist, with American backing, that the roadmap requires not an agreement by Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah's Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade to refrain from terror attacks, but instead the systematic dismantling of these groups. Israel is insisting on nothing less than an all-out "war on terror" by the PA, but Abbas is both unable and unwilling to use force against the militants for fear of starting a Palestinian civil war he would likely lose. Instead, the PA hopes to draw these groups into...