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Runyon should tell that to the folks in Livingston, where the fight has reached a pitch that rivals last year's Freemen standoff. In December, volunteers stood outside the post office in subzero weather and gathered 1,500 signatures on an antimove petition. Regional officials in Denver took notice. Postponing the decision to relocate, the Postal Service hired a market-research firm to conduct a telephone survey. However, Cooper and others found it insultingly biased--not a sincere sampling of opinion but the basis for a slick p.r. offensive...
...from stumbling into any unexpected crises, and she brings to this a passion for problem solving and cutting through diplospeak. When she sits down with her senior aides each morning, they reel off two-minute reports on North Korean famine, the chemical-weapons treaty pending in Congress, the hostage standoff in Peru. "How does our policy jibe with Peruvian policy?" she demands as she prepares for a meeting with President Alberto Fujimori. "I'm fascinated to know what's happening inside that embassy...
...move puts Beijing, a traditional ally of Pyongyang, in a bind. Allowing him to fly to Seoul will embarrass and infuriate North Korea. South Korean officials are conferring with the Chinese government on how to bring Hwang to Seoul. Unless a face-saving compromise is found, a protracted diplomatic standoff looms. Why would such a senior and influential leader defect at this time? "Possible explanations read like a multiple choice," notes TIME's Jaime FlorCruz. "It could be a power struggle in a disagreement with Kim Jong Il; he is disillusioned with Kim's rule, or he has lost faith...
PHILADELPHIA: A hostage standoff at a Philadelphia check-cashing store ended peacefully Friday afternoon. Posing as security guards, a group of men entered the store Friday morning and attempted to rob it, taking up to 70 people inside hostage after the place was surrounded by police. After a tense afternoon of negotiations, the captors began releasing the hostages just before 3 p.m. There were no injuries reported from the incident, but one woman who appeared shaken was carried away on a stretcher. Police believe that the robbery attempt is connected to at least three other similar crimes at other Financial...
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia: As Belgrade police continued their violent crackdown on demonstrators Monday, opposition leader Vuk Draskovic declared an end to "Gandhi-style resistance," telling reporters that ?complete civil disobedience is the only way.? The most violent confrontation with police to date started on Sunday, when a standoff with riot police on a bridge degenerated into a widespread beating of protesters that continued through the night. Police chased students through the streets, into stores and university buildings, beating them and dragging some of them away for arrest. At least 80 were reported injured. Casualties ranged from pro-democratic leader Vesna Pesic...