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...clemency offer did not come without strings attached. The prisoners had to renounce violence, refrain from associating with one another outside of prison and comply with traditional parole terms...
...Inhofe (R.-Okla.) and others want to know is, has Rubin been engaging in "threatening and harassing" telephone calls and e-mails to the residences of anti-sludge activists Helaine Shields, Jane Beswick and others? Did Rubin attempt to bribe a waste-treatment-company executive to get him to "refrain from raising concerns" about sludge transportation and stop insisting it be transported as hazardous waste? Has Rubin been distributing "selected, preliminary" risk data that appeared to discredit sludge-toxicity findings by EPA scientist David Lewis? The agency has come under fire for harassing its scientists who question regulations...
North Korea can come in from the cold, but Pyongyang will have to check its missiles at the door. President Clinton on Friday lifted a series of economic sanctions against North Korea that had been in place since 1953, in response to Pyongyang?s undertaking to refrain from missile testing. The announcement will allow trade in consumer goods between the U.S. and North Korea and investment by American firms in the country?s torpid economy. But don?t expect to see your local deli carrying North Korean kimchee any time soon ? prospects for trade may be somewhat limited...
...silos. The U.S. Monday announced a new breakthrough with North Korea, after the two sides agreed at talks in Berlin that Pyongyang would suspend missile tests in exchange for Washington's moving to ease economic sanctions on the impoverished communist state. Thus far, North Korea has agreed only to refrain from firing another missile while talks last, but observers believe it?s the first step toward a comprehensive agreement to end the missile program in exchange for economic assistance. And extortion may have actually been the objective of North Korea?s missile rattling. "They keep cranking up their threat...
...instrumental virtuosos either. Yet it's clear that the Chemical Brothers have made one of the finest albums this year, pushing their creativity to the limits, showing that they can do more than make you jump. The pounding French-house-style opening track, "Music: Response" has as its main refrain an electronic voice proclaiming that "music should trigger some kind of response," and elicit a response this album certainly will. In its most manic parts, it can (and will) send dance-floors through the roof, but the sheer sonic range of the album counters the usual line that dance artists...