Word: reined
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...will still ferret out North Korean spies. But the job of catching domestic sympathizers will be passed to the country's police. The fear is that the shift in responsibilities, as well as efforts to make the NIS more accountable, will make the agency a toothless tiger?giving freer rein to the thousands of North Korean agents believed to be operating in the South. "We seem to have forgotten that North Korea is communist and is still eager to reunify the two Koreas under communism," says lawmaker Hahm Seung Heui, a member of the bipartisan National Assembly's Intelligence Committee...
...have the Bomb already?and insisted on a U.S. security guarantee, normalized relations and economic aid as the price for giving it up. "They're up to their old blackmail game," Bush said. Rather than pay up, Washington hawks now hope to persuade China, Japan and South Korea to rein in Pyongyang with economic sanctions, perhaps even a blockade that would halt Kim's arms and drug sales, the regime's main sources of hard currency...
...past their inability to resolve the security standoff. The Bush administration had insisted on Abbas's confirmation as the precondition for publishing the document, but Israeli security chiefs and Palestinian political analysts tend to share a pessimistic view of the new prime minister's ability to rein in terror attacks. Palestinian security structures are in disarray, Abbas faces considerable domestic opposition even from within his own organization, and Yasser Arafat doesn't exactly have a vested interest in seeing the new prime minister succeed...
Soldiers initially told not to respond to looters unless their own safety was threatened--the British high command "doesn't want us to make ourselves unpopular here," said a British soldier--were eventually given freer rein. By Friday the BBC was reporting that British soldiers shot and killed five bank robbers in Basra. The Pentagon imposed a nighttime curfew on Baghdad, and on Saturday, despite a fire fight downtown, the capital overall was much calmer. The looting had subsided, residents were returning to the city, and many shops and restaurants had reopened. In days to come, the U.S. hopes...
...Lebanon would enrage Damascus. To which the view in the Administration seems to be, Too bad. Even some officials who are privately dismissive of the neoconservative agenda seem prepared to yank the chain of Syrian President Bashar Assad, whom they consider a disappointing, feeble reformer who has failed to rein in his own security forces. U.S. intelligence believes Syria allowed men and materiel--including night-vision goggles--to cross its border and join Saddam's forces during the war. When asked last week what he would do if Saddam's weapons of mass destruction were spirited to Syria, Defense Secretary...