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...which were premised on offering economic and technological aid to North Korea as an incentive for Pyongyang to end its nuclear and missile programs. Conservative Republicans had long pilloried that policy as giving in to extortion, and administration officials had signaled in March that the Bush team wants to reopen talks on the 1994 agreement under which the U.S. and Japan undertook to provide energy aid and help North Korea build civilian nuclear reactors if the Koreans ended a nuclear program that could equip them with weapons-grade plutonium. Administration officials were unhappy at the level of verification provided...
...University has also agreed to reopen contract negotiations with Service Employees International Union (SEIU) four weeks after the committee issues its report. The contract negotiated with SEIU, the union that represents Harvard's janitorial staff--some of whose members earn less than a living wage--will be retroactive...
...Students are also calling on the University to reopen contract negotiations with unions whose members earn less than $10.25 per hour, but Harvard officials said yesterday they have no plans...
Harvard will not raise wages, nor will it reopen contract negotiations with unions whose members earn less than $10.25 per hour...
...demonstrators in Massachusetts Hall deserve our continued support. Although President Neil L. Rudenstine took a step in the right direction by announcing willingness to reopen the living wage issue by assembling a new committee, the demonstrators are justified in requesting specifics regarding the committee’s composition, mandate, powers and timetable. Harvard’s administration is far more powerful than the weary demonstrators and can force them out or wait them out without granting their requests, but it ought not to. The demonstrators have right on their side, in two ways. First, there is a powerful moral argument...