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...countries are scheduled to come face-to-face in the communist capital, Pyongyang, the first such meeting in the 49 years since the Korean Peninsula was divided. Why should Americans care? A meeting between the two could cool Cold-War tensions and help further defuse a U.S.-North Korea standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear-weapons program. Already, though, signs are emerging of potential irritation between the two Koreas: the North refuses to discuss a second confab, which the Southerners hope to hold in Seoul. Longtime Korea watchers warn that hopeful signs of impending summits have been dashed before...
...about families and how trustworthy they are," says James Nelson, a medical ethicist at the Hastings Center in New York. Someone from the Pittsburgh team decided to call the child-abuse hot line in Florida to try to force Benny to renew treatment, and the result was the awkward standoff. "That's the most distressing part to us," says Tzakis. "We all have the feeling that Benny has slipped out from under...
...eight Branch Davidians convicted for their roles in the deadly shoot-out that precipitated the Waco standoff were sentenced by a federal judge to stiff prison terms ranging up to 40 years...
...will hold talks with North Korea July 8, in an attempt to resolve the standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program. The move is a resumption of talks that were called off when the communist government refused U.N. inspectors full access to nuclear facilities. The meetings, to take place in Geneva, appear to be a result of diplomatic manuevering on the part of former President Jimmy Carter, who visited North Korea two weeks ago. Since then, Pyongyang has allowed inspectors back into the facilities...
...Nuclear Standoff Continues...