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...North: The Clinton Administration announced it would not conduct military operations with the South, while the U.S. and South Korean delegations made it clear that North Korea's participation in peace talks would be rewarded by more economic cooperation, an offer sure to resonate in a nation torn by economic crisis. In recent weeks, the U.S. has made good on similar offers of aid, most notably by pledging $10 million in relief after Nort h Korea made an emergency plea to the World Food Program. Incentives aside, some analysts say the sheer number of dilemmas faced by North Korea -- epitomized...
Although the posters were all torn down, Peninsula members said they may have done lasting harm to the magazine...
...With a practical mind for detail, Deng helped duplicate and distribute the party newsletter, a job that earned him the mock degree of "doctor of mimeography." He earned his true credentials, however, in Moscow, where he studied Marxist-Leninist thought in 1926. Then it was back to a strife-torn China to propagate the faith. Deng's first assignment, as ideological watchdog to a Soviet-supported warlord, fell through when his patron defected to the Nationalists. Deng's next mission was even less promising: the young communist was ordered to the backcountry of Guangxi province in the far south, where...
...then seven, was still small enough to fit into the hiding place behind a wall, but his sister Bella, 15, was not. The aging poet remembers what happened next with understated anguish: "The burst door. Wood ripped from hinges, cracking like ice under the shouts. Noises never heard before, torn from my father's mouth. Then silence. My mother had been sewing a button on my shirt. She kept her buttons in a chipped saucer. I heard the rim of the saucer in circles on the floor. I heard the spray of buttons, little white teeth...
...vote shy of the needed two-thirds supermajority. With all 55 Republicans and 11 Democrats supporting the measure, the move means that freshman Senator Robert Torricelli will cast the deciding ballot in a vote that could come as early as next Friday. The New Jersey Democrat is being torn between loyalty to his party and abandoning the position he staked out in his fierce campaign. TIME Congressional correspondent Tamala Edwards reports from Washington that Senate passage could give the amendment enough momentum to make a good showing the House. But GOP leaders there are a little gunshy after losing other...