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...North Korea's recent offer to restart stalled talks might mean one more chance to end half a century of hostility on the peninsula?and give Kim an opportunity to salvage his presidency. But he'll have to shore up his home base first. Even in Mok'po, the port city in Cholla where he got his political start, he is no longer a hero. Just ask Ko Seong Ju. More than 50 years ago, Ko worked the printing press for a local newspaper that Kim was running. Kim once gave him a ride along the beach in a jeep...
...Although nobody's going to get overly optimistic about yet another round of diplomatic efforts to restart previously stalled cease-fire efforts, a new flurry of diplomatic semaphores from Washington, Berlin, the United Nations, Cairo, Jerusalem and Ramallah suggests a renewed attempt to contain the recent escalation of violence, and to follow the Mitchell Report's recommendations on triage for the stricken peace process. German foreign minister Joschka Fischer on Tuesday persuaded Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres to hold a new round of face-to-face talks, under his auspices, at some point...
...trade unions and politicians trying their best to turn them back. When French appliance maker Moulinex-Brandt tried to eliminate 670 jobs at a factory in Lesquin in northern France last month, the regional director of labor found the company's restructuring plan inadequate and ordered the firm to restart negotiations with the union. Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, who seems likely to join the presidential race, has been pushing "social modernization" legislation that would make it more difficult for companies to lay off workers. Not surprisingly, big business has heatedly opposed the proposal. "If firing becomes impossible, hiring will become...
...NATO secretary general Lord Robertson and EU security chief Javier Solana arrived in Skopje Thursday in a bid to restart political talks, facing a government increasingly hostile to what it perceives as Western bias towards the insurgents. Indeed, the Macedonian government had made clear that it had no interest in further discussion with Western mediators unless rebel forces retreated to positions they held when the last cease-fire was signed on July 5. The guerrillas have done so, under the weight of Western pressure, but there's no reason to believe they won't simply press forward again a week...
...with a series of short bursts of about 5 volts each. If his heart starts pumping too fast, the defibrillator portion will release longer bursts in quick succession to slow it down. And if it starts beating dangerously fast--more than 200 beats per minute--Gem III DR will restart it with a jolt measuring a few hundred volts (enough to feel like a swift kick in the chest...