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...fund the kind of social projects that Venezuela's legions of impoverished never saw from his kleptocratic predecessors-and to subsidize cheaper oil for his cash-strapped Latin neighbors-more people are willing to defend him, as most Latin leaders did last spring when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice toured South America...
...tally of American dead also laid bare the impact that casualties can have on U.S. public support for the war and the stop-and-go progress toward a political solution in Iraq. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice likes to say the Administration is pursuing a two-track policy in Iraq: military plus political. But the two tracks are so entwined that problems on one can easily derail the other. Whenever U.S. casualties spike, as they did last week, the Bush Administration has to remind everyone at home that U.S. forces will not be staying forever. Anxious about slumping domestic approval...
...amass nuclear weapons, confident that it would be able to return to "denuclearization" discussions at a time of Kim Jong Il's own choosing. North Korea finally agreed in June to go back to the table, but only after a promise of half a million tons of free rice from South Korea. And in the months leading up to the current talks, North Korea did not exactly signal its wholehearted enthusiasm for denuclearization. Instead, Pyongyang announced that it was proceeding apace with plutonium reprocessing and with "weaponizing" its plutonium; it also claimed that it had "manufactured nukes," and declared that...
...Gasa is barely able to walk now, and a recent ear infection landed him in hospital for 10 days. Earlier on this warm, cloudless day, when his visitors disembarked from their boat, bringing supplies of rice, bottled water and betel nut, Gasa thanked them for the gifts. Now, in a wavering voice, he recalls the war as the most terrible time of his life. "We could hear bombs all night until daybreak," Gasa says through interpreter Neboty Turukevu, a Solomon Islands police officer who is linked by marriage to the patriarch known locally as "the old man." "We were...
...their canoe, Gasa and Kumana were on their mission to Gizo. "We saw a Japanese barge wrecked near Naru Island," says Gasa. "As we were almost naked, we decided to go to the wreck to look for clothes. We found fuel and bags of rice." A man called out to the pair from Naru's white sandy beach. "We thought he was Japanese, so we left him there," Gasa says. "We paddled a short way to Olasana to get coconuts." They later learned the man was Kennedy, who'd swum to Naru island to be closer to shipping lanes. "While...