Word: standoffs
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After months of a tense standoff, the U.S. and North Korea reached a broad agreement that would freeze and then dismantle North Korea's declared nuclear program (but not, perhaps, all of the secret weapons program) and move the nations toward normal political and economic relations with each other for the first time. In return for the halt, the Clinton Administration and its allies will provide North Korea with two light-water reactors, worth an estimated $4 billion, as well as up to 500,000 tons of heavy oil a year. International inspectors will be allowed to monitor North Korea...
...private U.S. officials go even further: the sanctions must stay until Saddam goes. Better to continue a pattern of confrontation and standoff, U.S. officials argued, than allow Iraq to rebuild its economy and weapons capabilities. The U.S. hard line inspired sympathy for Iraq among some foreign diplomats, who agreed with Iraqi U.N. Ambassador Nizar Hamdoon's assertion that "the U.S. keeps moving the goalposts...
...delegations drove over to the Presidential Palace. Carter and Nunn went in one car, and Powell rode with Cedras, straddling a pile of rifle grenades. And then came the final standoff. Jonassaint convened the Cabinet, and the agreement was on the table. Said Nunn: "It became very apparent that General Cedras was not going to ever say, 'I agree.' " Then Carter dramatically reached out and signed the agreement himself. Would the Haitians respond? Who among them would sign...
...minister unexpectedly announced travel plans for an 11th-hour trip to Washington to avert sanctions against his country that could be levied as early as Friday. Ryutaro Hashimoto's D.C.-bound mission, scheduled for tomorrow, could signal a breakthrough in talks. The two sides are currently in a hostile standoff over America's ever-expanding trade deficit with Tokyo...
North Korea and the U.S. resumed talks in Geneva aimed at ending the standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear program. The talks are expected to last a week and focus on a specific issue: getting North Korea to allow inspections of two sites suspected by the U.S. to be nuclear waste dumps...