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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there is no signal that they plan to do that. The fuel rods in the cooling ponds are still being monitored by two IAEA inspectors and automatic cameras at Yongbyon. The catch is that North Korea has threatened to withdraw entirely from the nonproliferation treaty if the U.N., or the U.S. unilaterally, imposes sanctions. That would defeat Clinton's purpose, since it would mean the end of all inspections, no matter how imperfect. Washington would have to assume that Pyongyang was reprocessing the plutonium to build bombs. Pressure would increase to pile on the sanctions and begin reinforcing South Korea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Down the Risky Path | 6/13/1994 | See Source »

...willing to be a person that writes byherself. I love workshops and feedback, but ittakes a lot of energy. You have to withdraw andthink about what you want to think about...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, | Title: Her Poetry Comes From Ordinary Life | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...peninsula? By the beginning of July the Allies had landed more than 1 million troops, 566,000 tons of supplies and 171,000 vehicles. Having failed to drive the Allies back into the sea, Hitler chose to throw all he had into a decisive fight in Normandy rather than withdraw to another defense line along the Seine. But when U.S. forces under Bradley did finally surge out of the peninsula at the end of July and sweep south and east, 21 German divisions were outflanked and almost destroyed. Their retreat over the Seine became a rout, and the victorious Allies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-Day: IKE'S INVASION | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

Reflecting its increasing frustration with the continuing war in Bosnia, France said it would withdraw 2,500 of its soldiers from the U.N. peacekeeping force in the former Yugoslavia within months if there is no progress toward peace. France's 6,800-member contingent -- largest in the 28,000-strong U.N. force -- is costing the country billions, a commitment French Defense Minister Francois Leotard said he is unwilling to keep up without seeing results: "No one is obliged to do the absurd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week May 15-21 | 5/30/1994 | See Source »

...biggest and fastest exodus they had ever seen, more than 250,000 people poured into neighboring Tanzania. By late Friday, lines at the border stretched for five miles. In New York City U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali urged the Security Council to reconsider its decision to withdraw most of its forces and asked that peacekeepers be permitted to use force to prevent further massacres similar to those he said had claimed 200,000 victims in the past three weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week April 24-30 | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

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