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...produce the goods for Christmas but at the same time plan to shut them down. But workers got suspicious when the company stopped ordering raw materials. They had seen other U.S. companies close overnight without paying the legally mandated severance pay. Two days before the planned but unannounced shutdown, workers at one plant took the American manager hostage, locking her in the lunchroom until they were assured of severance. The next day Von Lehman sent a pile of cash in an armored truck. Amazingly, he notes, the employees showed up for work their last two days...
...North in Vietnam hit a roadblock. According to Japan's Foreign Ministry, Pyongyang temporarily suspended negotiations after Tokyo demanded that it account for Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and '80s. Considering how tricky talking to the North can be, just achieving the immediate goal-the shutdown and dismantlement of the Yongbyon reactor-would be a significant diplomatic feat. And as Hill is the first to acknowledge, it's a long way from here to there...
...small electrical fire in the server room of the Science Center caused an evacuation of the building and a shutdown of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) servers last Friday. At approximately 4:05 p.m., a fire alarm went off in the Science Center, and the building was quickly evacuated. Electrical power was cut to the server room after an electrical short circuit caused a fire in the power supply unit, FAS Computer Services spokeswoman Elizabeth Hess said in a statement sent via e-mail. Hess could not be reached for comment over the weekend. The fire caused disruption...
Admittedly, it is never possible to say with certainty whether someone as unpredictable as Kim Jong Il will uphold his end of the bargain. There is no indication, however, that continued sanctions would ever have coerced him to shutdown his nuclear power plants. Only through engagement and negotiation will we be able to change North Korea; isolationism can only result in heightened tensions and an increasingly belligerent state of affairs...
After almost five years and virtually no progress towards the stabilization of the Korean Peninsula, the Six Party talks seem to have resulted, after just a few months, in the shutdown of the nuclear plant in Yongbyon. But, perhaps more importantly, this agreement was effected through the joint efforts of the U.S. and China. This agreement represents an incremental and preliminary change, to be sure, but a promising...