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...World Series panic ends: Major League Baseball and its players seal a deal within hours of a strike deadline, saving season...
...experts say that with proper maintenance they should work fine. Since then, Baghdad may have bought or built more. Media attention has focused on the risks posed by Iraq's chemical, biological and nuclear capacities, but those dangers are multiplied if Iraq can arm missiles with these weapons and strike its neighbors at arm's length. In the 1991 conflict, Iraq did not fire missiles tipped with chemical or biological agents. But if the U.S. battles Iraq again, this time with the stated aim of removing President Saddam Hussein from power, as President Bush has threatened, intelligence analysts fear that...
...troops stationed in the South to deter the North Korean army from swarming over the 38th parallel and into Seoul, which is only about 64 kilometers from the border. U.S. citizens can't rest easy, either. The North is thought to be developing missiles that can strike Alaska and possibly the West Coast. Washington has cut off all dialogue with North Korea as well as oil shipments...
...tapped by the leading Millennium Democratic Party as the candidate to succeed Kim, is committed to engagement. A self-taught lawyer who never attended university, Roh acquired his liberal credentials by defending students and workers on strike who ran foul of the country's draconian national securities law. A card-carrying idealist, he once suggested that U.S. troops be ejected from Korean soil...
...appear to have a more positive view of the United Nations and its arms inspectors than do the more hawkish elements of the Bush Administration - 67 percent of respondents approved of the job UNMOVIC is doing in probing for weapons in Iraq. Despite the Administration reserving the right to strike unilaterally, 50 percent of respondents said that even if Saddam obstructed weapons inspections, the U.S. should not invade without UN authorization, whereas only 31 percent said Washington should launch an immediate invasion in the event of Iraqi non-compliance...