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...Tokyo had been among the first and loudest voices in an international chorus demanding that Pyongyang refrain from going ahead. Japan responded immediately by suspending the ferry transport and charter flights between the countries, and blocking North Korean officials from traveling to Japan. It also moved quickly to co-sponsor, with the U.S., a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding that North Korea immediately cease development, testing and deployment of ballistic missiles. The Council meets to discuss the matter on Wednesday...
...last major accomplishments of Randy "Duke" Cunningham before the Republican Congressman was jailed for taking $2.4 million in bribes was to sponsor an amendment to the 217-year-old Constitution of the United States. The amendment, which would have given Congress the power to outlaw "desecration" of the flag, cleared the required two-thirds majority in the House last year and Tuesday evening the Senate put the amendment to a vote. Both sides in the battle said during the run up to the vote that supporters were one vote short of the 67 required for Congressional passage - and despite...
...rhetoric of Karl Rove and others, said the Levin-Reed amendment "effectively calls on the United States to cut and run from Iraq." The office of Texas Senator John Cornyn gleefully pointed out contradictions in the statements of those supporting the Reed-Levin plan. Dianne Feinstein, an amendment co-sponsor, said on Sunday, "I think it's time to set some timetables." Levin, at a press conference a day later, asserted, "Our amendment does not establish a timetable for redeployment...
...last week, U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack blasted the SCO for having included Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the summit: "Having Iran there as an observer?Iran, the world's largest or most significant state sponsor of terrorism ... runs counter to the idea that this is a group dedicated in part to countering terrorism in the region." Ahmadinejad responded by warning SCO nations against "domineering powers [who] use their force against and interfere in the affairs of other states." Still, the regional conference could prove useful in curbing Iran's nuclear ambitions. After meeting on the sidelines with both...
...which one alumnus defined as “exquisite sensitivity to minority issues.” Those who know that neither allegation is true leap to the conclusion that Summers was ousted by some tiny “cabal.” As the sponsor of the resolution that led to the 218-185 “no-confidence” vote in March 2005, I offer one perspective from the heart of the rather large cabal called the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), which functions, or suffers, under the president’s authority far more than...