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Quezi Botchwey, African development director for the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) and the newly-created Harvard Center for International Development (HCID), contacted Mandela and his wife Graca Machel, former first lady of Mozambique, to help publicly launch HCID's Emerging Africa Research Initiative...
...however, was also a prime target audience. The launch came just hours before diplomats from both countries were due to sit down in New York City to iron out a minicrisis that erupted over the North's nuclear ambitions. U.S. spy satellites revealed a massive excavation northeast of Pyongyang that suggested the North could be attempting to revive a nuclear weapons project they had agreed to shelve. It's still not clear what is going on at the dig. Some analysts guess that the project is a kind of bluff, an attempt to leverage the impoverished regime's only real...
...asked for only $35 million, hoping to pass the tin cup among its allies. That hasn't worked, since many countries question why the world's leading economic power can't come up with the money. But U.S. lawmakers are even more reluctant to bankroll Pyongyang after Monday's launch. The Senate quickly passed legislation requiring President Clinton to certify that North Korea is not developing nuclear weapons or exporting ballistic missiles to terrorist nations before providing more fuel oil. If approved by the House, the requirement could kill the 1994 agreement...
...should help to refocus the thinking of policymakers in Washington. It is light-years ahead of its predecessor, the Nodong-1, a one-stage rocket with a range of up to 620 miles. Multiple-stage vehicles require expertise in guidance systems and other tricky technology. Thus last week's launch means the North is a step closer to building intercontinental ballistic missiles that could reach the mainland U.S., according to Richard Speier, a Carnegie Foundation consultant and former missile proliferation expert at the Pentagon...
...specific and credible." The issues seem plain. "These ads were produced and designed by the campaign media consultants," says Common Cause president ANN MCBRIDE, pointing out that "it's on the public record that Clinton was very much involved in them." Reno watchers believe she will soon launch a formal 90-day inquiry into the Democrats' use of issue-advocacy ads to promote the ticket, and the betting inside Justice is that she will ultimately seek an independent counsel. If that happens, officials say, the mother of all IC probes could result, enveloping Clinton and Gore and even Republican standard...