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...good reasons for wanting to know what the Kurds are up to. A separatist guerrilla group is based in the craggy mountains along the Turkey-Iraq border. To contain them, Turkey is planning ahead in other ways, a senior Turkish official said: the military has won U.S. approval to establish 17 refugee camps - 10 of them on Iraqi soil - as soon as war starts. Ankara wants to avoid a repeat of 1991, when a flood of 450,000 Kurdish refugees into Turkey was joined by armed insurgents who went on to reignite a civil war. Turkish-controlled camps within Iraq...
NEPAL In From the Cold Maoist rebels and the government agreed to a ceasefire and peace talks to end violence in which at least 7,000 people have died. The rebels began an insurgency in 1996 to overthrow the constitutional monarchy and establish a socialist state. The Nepalese government agreed to stop calling the rebels "terrorists" and to cancel rewards for their arrest. But officials refused to give details about either the time or place of talks...
...would be for them to return aboard a Russian Soyuz craft, which isn't the most comfortable or the safest ride. Beyond that, however, the space station is likely to be left unoccupied for a long time. NASA won't want to use the shuttle again until it can establish the cause of today's accident, and fix it. Now that we've lost two shuttles out of a fleet of five, it's even conceivable that the shuttle won't fly again. The shuttle was built as a space truck, and then the International Space Station was built...
...recommendation approved yesterday would establish a predetermined number of roster spots on each team as the standard for proportionality, rather than the actual number of athletes...
...commission also recommended that the Department of Education look into reshaping the second prong of Title IX compliance—that a school shows an ongoing history of broadening opportunities for women. Commissioners wanted to designate a sunset point at which schools can no longer establish compliance through...