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When confronted by intransigent nations, the U.S. government has made accommodation the name of the game. Under a president who accused his predecessor of coddling the Chinese, it has renewed China's most-favored-nation trading status and raised only a minor ruckus over alleged arms shipments to Pakistan. More recently, the U.S. has responded to North Korea's alarming refusal to comply with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty by dangling various rewards--from an end to U.S.-South Korean military exercises to steps toward diplomatic recognition--in exchange for cooperation...
CARTAGENA: This year's Miss Colombia pageant set tongues wagging over statistics other than the usual vital ones. The ruckus began with whispers that a contestant, Catherine Sanchez Hernandez, was secretly married and therefore ineligible. The current Miss Amazon issued a denial -- "I would never falsify my marital status because after all I am studying law" -- but resigned after the priest who performed her wedding ceremony appeared with certificate in hand. She was not studying law; she wasn't even from the Amazon region. In fact, only nine of the 25 contestants were born in the departments they represented...
...Bakersfield P.D. qualifies as real, at least by TV's usual standards. In the pixilated police department where this sitcom is set, the captain is a nervous Nellie who can't make a decision without the approval of his protective aide-de-camp. One sentimental cop causes a ruckus when he takes to bestowing kisses on his partner. A crazed gunman barricades himself inside a building and holds off a SWAT team but seems at a loss to explain why. "I want you to send somebody in," he finally calls out, "to help me think of my demands." Even odder...
What's the ruckus about? The real issues are as difficult to sort out as the label on a bottle of complex multivitamins. Much of the uproar has been stirred by the Nutritional Health Alliance, a pressure group that accuses the FDA of trying to empty the shelves of the health-food stores and require a doctor's prescription for herbs and amino acids. "They intend to destroy the ; industry," says Gerald Kessler, executive director of NHA and founder of Nature's Plus vitamins. "They want to take 9 out of 10 supplements and call them unsafe food additives...
...interview continued with no further interruptions, but the dean said that he would discover what campus organization or outside travel agency was causing the ruckus...