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...guarantees to North Korea goes to the heart of the Bush administration's internal divisions over how to deal with a Stalinist state named by President Bush as part of his "Axis of Evil" - should the U.S. seek a new agreement that rewards North Korea with aid for its stricken economy if it agrees to scrap its nuclear program and submit to a tight and intrusive inspection system, or should it seek regime change in the belief that getting rid of the dictator Kim Jong Il is the only surefire way to stop his nuclear program. The mixed messages from...
...field fractured, with no heavyweight to take on Schwarzenegger. Sensing a disaster, such influential figures as former Governor Jerry Brown and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown took to the cable news shows to suggest that Davis should step aside and beg Feinstein to run in his place. Meanwhile, panic-stricken union officials, who had pledged to stand with Davis, started putting out the word privately that he should not count on the $10 million in assistance he has asked from them...
...disease, the deadly virus capable of devastating a nation's agricultural livestock. Too bad he hasn't done more to eradicate foot-in-mouth disease, a lesser-known affliction that compels Japanese politicians to make ludicrous public statements. In the past month alone, a slew of lawmakers has been stricken in the latest epidemic...
...residents of AIDS-stricken Wenlou village in central Henan province, China's authorities seem considerably less paternal. As many as 60% of the locals are HIV positive, infected when they sold blood under unsanitary conditions in the 1990s. Most are too poor to afford even basic medicine needed for the host of small infections the virus brings, let alone the costly antiretroviral drugs just now becoming available in Chinese cities. Victims are treated in makeshift infirmaries lacking basic medical gear...
...first used in 1950 to clear loitering nationalist troops from cities newly liberated by the communists. And although China's leaders might recognize that mobility among the populace is necessary for enabling economic growth, they fear that unfettered freedom of movement would inundate cities with refugees from the poverty-stricken countryside. Additionally, the C.-and-R. apparatus provides a convenient way for the authorities to deal with all kinds of undesirables. Those who travel to Beijing to petition the central government or complain of local corruption, for example, often fall into its clutches. "Since China has no mechanism or judicial...