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Moreover, if an oil or trade embargo is imposed, U.S. analysts fear a violent response. Also, Pyongyang diplomats have said privately that any attack on their nuclear facilities would trigger an invasion of the South. None of these risks of escalation are worth taking yet, since Western intelligence analysts are fairly sure that the North has only small amounts of plutonium and no operational bomb. Further, says a State Department official, "none of our main interlocutors on this issue -- South Korea, Russia, Japan, China -- think negotiations have been exhausted...
...does the worm turn. I can momentarily, at least, rest easy, knowing that my dilemma rests in the very competent hands of Ronn Tomassoni--he won't pull the trigger on either one of them until he's absolutely sure in his decision...
...occupied France. By day, he was a good doctor who treated the poor. But by night, he lured unsuspecting Jews into his snare in the guise of smuggling them to freedom and coldly destroyed them and stole their valuables. The insane genocidal climate of the times surely held to trigger his own latent madness and made him a monster of the night. "Juvenile Court" at 7:30 p.m. Shot in Memphis, the film records routine legal procedures and the interactions of offenders with the legal system, depicting cases that range from issues of child placement in foster homes to drug...
...Heidi Holland, a self-proclaimed "informed observer" of life, and links them with the chief social issues and trends of her time. The play begins with Heidi (Janine Poreba) alone on a darkened stage, warmly personalizing her lecture on women in art. Her reminiscences of insecurity and indecision trigger the events of the play, literally inviting the audience to relate to her story on a personal level...
These doctrines show that the Administration is anything but trigger-happy. Why, then, is Clinton marching resolutely toward the deployment of U.S. soldiers to help NATO police Bosnia? The President promised the forces once the warring parties all agree on a settlement. The one now about to be signed will dismember the country into Serb, Croat and Muslim zones and allow the Serb and Croat regions to secede in two years. Senior U.S. officials say enforcement should not be too bloody because all three sides will gain from peace. But reluctant units must be disarmed, thousands of refugees relocated...