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Just how damning are allegations by Congressman Curt Weldon that a secret Pentagon intelligence operation pegged hijacker Mohammed Atta as a threat nearly two years before he led the 9/11 attacks? When Weldon first made the charge in a new book and in a June speech on the House floor, it met with little attention, but perhaps due to the August heat or the approaching fourth anniversary of the attacks, the accusation ignited controversy last week...
Representative Dave Weldon, Republican from Florida and co-chair of the House Aerospace Caucus, foresees a catfight in Congress over any new space expenditures, especially in an era of again ballooning deficits. "The people who opposed space-flight funding are going to come forward again and voice concerns that we should spend the money on something else," he says. "But we are a nation of explorers, and we'll continue to explore the unknown...
...RETURNED HOME. CHARLES JENKINS, 65, U.S. Army sergeant who defected to North Korea in 1965 and lived there for 39 years before being allowed to emigrate to Japan in 2004; to Weldon, North Carolina. Jenkins said he wanted to visit his ailing 91-year-old mother. Jenkins served 25 days in a U.S. military jail in Japan last year after pleading guilty to desertion and aiding the enemy...
...delegation declared North Korea was ready to return to the long-delayed six-party talks over its nuclear weapons program. Pyongyang had pulled out of negotiations with the U.S., China, South Korea, Japan and Russia last August, citing a "hostile" U.S. attitude; this time, said delegation leader Republican Curt Weldon, talks could resume in "weeks, not months or years." But, as Weldon conceded, there's a catch: before they come back to the table, the North Koreans want to know the make-up of the new Bush administration and want Washington to stop making "negative" comments about their regime. Pyongyang...
...during a tour of some of the more prudish British towns, audience members walked out in protest. "It felt as shocking as it was in the 1890s. I rather enjoyed that!" Will the success of the Ibsen plays prompt the West End to put on more serious work? Duncan Weldon, producer of The Master Builder, is pessimistic. "We are seeing, if not the last hurrah of serious plays, at least the signs of a slowdown. Other forms of entertainment will take over and in 10 years there will be far less theater." Theatergoers hope that dark prediction never comes true...