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...North Korean newspaper says that the government will demand a new nuclear reactor as a condition of opening its nuclear program to international inspectors. If that deal flies, according to the government organ, Pyongyang will seek a "package deal" that includes full diplomatic ties. The talk may not be so tough, since the Clinton Administration quietly floated the nuke offer weeks ago. Even as relations with the North grew somewhat warmer, the U.S. had to reprimand the South. Assistant Secretary of State Robert Gallucci, the chief U.S. negotiator, slammed Seoul for rhetorical attacks on the North and for the wide...
...national teach-in on the gulf that exists between black and white attitudes toward America's criminal-justice system. The shift came in a flurry of news leaks and public announcements. In raising questions about Fuhrman, the defense team unearthed a 1983 lawsuit, brought by the Los Angeles detective seeking disability benefits, in which he admitted to harboring hostile feelings about blacks and other minorities. While Fuhrman denied charges that he planted evidence, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti spent nearly two hours with black city leaders, trying to assure them that Simpson will get a fair trial...
Instead, the U.S. should seek some diplomatic settlement which will ameliorate the harshness of the military regime and keep Aristide far from the reigns of power...
...units present was the 20-member Prineville, Oregon, Hotshots. That team included Scott Blecha, 27, a graduate of the Oregon Institute of Technology and a four-year veteran of the Marine Corps. who planned to quit fighting fires after this summer and seek a master's degree in engineering. Also on board was Bonnie Jean Holtby, 21, who had run track and played basketball in high school. And there was Levi J. Brinkley, 22, who phoned his mother back in Oregon to tell her that he and his Prineville colleagues had been to hell -- a fire in California -- and were...
...fresh crews assembled the day after the blowup, waiting to relieve those who were still trying to extinguish the deadly Storm King fire. John Murray, boss of the Chief Mountain Hotshots, a Blackfoot Indian contingent out of Browning, Montana, mused, "The fire gets in your blood. You want to seek out danger and defeat...