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...projected $40 billion budget shortfall. "It reduces the pain, but it does not add to the pleasure," Thompson says. "It's not buying the Pentagon anything. But plainly the President from the start has been on the defensive over defense. This is a way he can strengthen his flanks against that these attacks...
...must bring Muslims together, so that they can strengthen each others' faith and advance the cause of Islam," said Mohsen Tehrani, a leader in the Boston-area Muslim community...
...intimidating their people and limiting outside influences, the Hutu leaders are intent on keeping as many Rwandans as possible from returning to their native country in order to strengthen their bargaining position with the new government in Kigali. If talks fail, control of the camps will provide another alternative. "We will attack, it is clear," says Karera. Gesturing toward a crowd gathered at a food-distribution center in Katale, he adds with a smile, "Do you really think this situation can last?" Foreign observers in Goma agree. "This is a classic environment for guerrilla incursions," says Captain Declan O'Brien...
...North was on the mind of U.S. and North Korean negotiators when they concluded their deal two weeks ago. In exchange for curbing its nuclear development program, Pyongyang will get 500,000 tons of free heavy oil and growing ties with Washington that the regime hopes will help strengthen its grip. The U.S. is betting that more contact with the West will have just the opposite effect -- and that eventually the walls designed to keep North Koreans at home will crumble...
...inviting student membership, the MSA hopes also to encourage intercultural dialogues and strengthen social relations between minority students at Harvard, says Asian American Association (AAA) representative Sheila N. Swaroop...