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...might have built and hidden. The solutions are neither easy nor obvious. Proposals for U.N. economic sanctions probably would be blocked in the Security Council by China, Korea's next-door neighbor, which considers such pressure unacceptable. Clinton might be tempted to use American military power as a last resort, but air strikes, for example, could trigger another full-scale Korean war, and if the North has a bomb, it is probably hidden. That leaves direct, bilateral diplomacy, the course Washington intends to keep pursuing. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali tried to help the process along by visiting Pyongyang...
...jail beds and improved security in the schools. Is the crime problem bad? Yes and no. Yes in the sense that the rates for murder and other violent crimes are somewhat higher than for the nation generally. But then they always have been -- as is typical of resort areas, where tourists skew the figures. What's interesting is how even in its level of violence the rest of America has come to resemble Las Vegas. The city's homicide rate was 128% higher than the nation's as recently as 1982; today the Las Vegas homicide figure is only...
Miami -- The White House is considering Fisher Island, a luxurious resort off Miami Beach, as a winter vacation spot for the Clintons, but The First Family won't be heading there this Christmas. To smooth his initially rocky relations with the Secret Service, Clinton will stay in Washington, giving his protectors a chance to spend the holiday with their families...
...prison term, it was difficult for any political analyst to feel optimistic about the prospects for freedom in south Africa. The apartheid regime of the National Party, in power since 1948, responded to decades of nonviolent resistance with intransigence. After the 1960 massacre at Sharpeville, the ANC decided to resort to a limited campaign of sabotage directed at government installations. For his part in organizing Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the ANC, Mandela--already a practicing lawyer, a veteran of the ANC Youth League and an activist in the 1952 Defiance Campaign--was sentenced to life in prison...
...matters stand, it's perfectly legal for members to accept speechmaking or "briefing" invitations from well-heeled lobbyists -- typically at cushy resorts in balmier climes during dreary winter months. Last January, for example, U.S. Tobacco staged a legislative briefing in Boca Raton, Florida, with 17 past and present members of Congress. In April, 10 members and their spouses spent four days and three nights at the South Seas Plantation resort off Florida's Gulf Coast, with airfares, hotel bills and, of course, greens fees paid for by the Electronics Industries Association...