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...sell missiles to Syria and is cooperating on nuclear technology with Iran and Algeria. Though China says it is supplying items for peaceful nuclear programs, the recipients can use them for any purpose they choose, and their likely intention is to build atom bombs. The U.S. demands a halt...
Baker responded that an international call for North Korea to halt its weapons program "does not necessarily involve pressure." He hoped to handle the problem "politically and diplomatically," he said. Beijing seemed to be preparing to tell Baker that China, not the U.S., should take the lead on this. The Chinese want to keep Pyongyang from getting the bomb, but they also want Korea to remain divided so they will not have to compete with a vibrant new economy on their border. Most of all, they want to prevent the U.S. from dominating Asian regional affairs...
...antiforeigner, but rather that he is "native- friendly." Semantics aside, what Haider stands for is abundantly clear to the Viennese, who last week gave his far-right Freedom Party 22.6% of the vote in provincial elections. So popular was Haider's proposal for an immediate halt to immigration into Austria -- there are currently about 500,000 foreigners living in a population of 7.8 million -- that his party displaced the conservative People's Party as the No. 2 power in the state...
...state's 32.5 million acres of forest continue to shrivel. In the north, loggers blame environmentalists for "locking up" ancient forests by suing to ! protect the spotted owl and otherwise halt timbering, but with 90% of the original stands of redwood and Douglas fir already cut, loggers really have only themselves to blame. Says Richard Wilson, newly appointed head of the department of forestry and fire protection: "The loggers put money into buying more old growth rather than regrowing cut forests, and the trees are not there to feed the mills." To maximize short-term profits, many companies...
...games themselves are quite intense. Conversations between players frequently come to a halt as players stop to organize their cards and play their hands. During one game, the discussion came to a climax when Grabiner announced that he had played against Zia Mahmood, the world's leading bridge player. His partner and opponents were thoroughly impressed...