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...gives Arafat precious little room to maneuver. In July, when Gaza PA security operative Mousa Arafat had some local Hamas militants arrested, he found his home surrounded by armed men from Fatah, and Islamist and leftist groups - the standoff ended only after he agreed to release the men and undertook to cease the arrests...
This list only begins to suggest what Phelan undertook in addition to her teaching, advising and administrative obligations as both chair of VES and director of the Carpenter Center...
...incentive for Pyongyang to end its nuclear and missile programs. Conservative Republicans had long pilloried that policy as giving in to extortion, and administration officials had signaled in March that the Bush team wants to reopen talks on the 1994 agreement under which the U.S. and Japan undertook to provide energy aid and help North Korea build civilian nuclear reactors if the Koreans ended a nuclear program that could equip them with weapons-grade plutonium. Administration officials were unhappy at the level of verification provided for in the treaty, but North Korea may be reluctant to reopen discussion...
...North recently undertook to extend its freeze on missile testing - a smart move at a time when Washington is using Pyongyang as Exhibit A in its efforts to convince U.S. allies of the need for missile defense - but says it won't schedule any more talks with South Korea until the U.S. has completed its policy review...
...Jerusalem, says Meyers, that Herod "undertook to make one of the major wonders of the ancient world." He rebuilt the existing meandering streets on a paved grid and created a moat-ringed palace featuring--in a moisture-starved region--picturesque water gardens. He added an amphitheater and a hippodrome. But the jewel in the crown, the spiritual, economic and social center of Judea and an icon to Jews throughout the region, was the Temple. It was his bid to rival Solomon, biblical builder of the Jews' first great house of worship, which had been razed by the Babylonians some...