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U.S. rejects one-on-one N. Korea talks
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersThe White House today rebuffed North Korea's demand for one-on-one meetings, one day after the communist state boldly admitted possession of nuclear weapons and rejected six-nation talks to end its nuclear program. "It's not an issue between North...Tags: Kim Jong Il, Washington (U.S. state), Foreign Aid, China, Michael Green
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Romney comes out swinging
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersTwo days before the New Hampshire primary that could make or break his White House candidacy, a combative Mitt Romney quarreled with rivals John McCain and Mike Huckabee over taxes, crime and job experience in a testy Republican debate that exposed...Tags: Mike Huckabee, Washington (U.S. state), U.S. Elections, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Migration
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The Houses Diplomacy Built
Special to The TimesTravelers associating the words "American embassy" only with lost passports and long lines are missing out. Judging from the 40-plus locations showcased in "Building Diplomacy: The Architecture of American Embassies" (Cornell University Press, $50),...Tags: Eero Saarinen, Arts and Culture, Cornell University, Travel, U.S. Embassy
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CEOs need to brace for G-8, NATO
![The G-8 and NATO summits being held in May in Chicago are expected to draw thousands of protesters, and <strong>Christie Hefner</strong><strong> </strong>had heard that some local CEOs were being told by their senior staff to "get out of town" that week to avoid them.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2011-12/66628030-07184721.jpg "The G-8 and NATO summits being held in May in Chicago are expected to draw thousands of protesters, and <strong>Christie Hefner</strong><strong> </strong>had heard that some local CEOs were being told by their senior staff to "get out of town\" that week to avoid them.")
The G-8 and NATO summits being held in May in Chicago are expected to draw thousands of protesters, and Christie Hefner had heard that some local CEOs were being told by their senior staff to "get out of town" that week to avoid them.
The warnings were...Tags: Aon PLC, Eric Schmidt, France, NATO, Summits
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Charles T. Manatt dies at 75; Democratic Party leader and diplomat
Charles T. Manatt, who founded one of the biggest and most influential law firms in Los Angeles and then became a political power as chairman of the state and national Democratic parties, died Friday night. He was 75.
Manatt died at Kindred Hospital in...Tags: Washington (U.S. state), Adlai Stevenson, Des Moines Register, Washington, DC, University of Iowa
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U.S. helps Iraqi group off militants
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterU.S. and Iraqi army units supported a citizen policing group in a daylong battle against an Al Qaeda in Iraq assault on a town south of the capital, the U.S. military said Tuesday. Thirty to 45 militants on foot and in vehicles mounted with machine...Tags: Basketball, U.S. Military, Court Preliminary, Los Angeles Times, Trials
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A Cold War Hawk Who Set the Stage for Peace
Times Staff WriterWASHINGTON — When Ronald Reagan entered the White House in 1981, the United States faced two major foreign policy challenges: the generation-long Cold War with the Soviet Union, and an unfamiliar new threat from militant Islamic movements, which had...Tags: Interior Policy, Harry S. Truman, Arts and Culture, The Washington Post, Health and Safety at School
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Speaking With the Enemy
RICHARD N. HAASS, former State Department director of policy planning, is president of the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of "The Opportunity: America's Moment to Alter History's Course."THE COUNCIL on Foreign Relations has hosted literally tens of thousands of meetings in its 85-year history, but few have generated as much interest or controversy as the session held Wednesday night in New York with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad....Tags: Washington (U.S. state), Arts and Culture, Fidel Castro, Iran, Human Rights
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Three Ways Bush Makes Castro Happy
It's unlikely that Fidel Castro could have conjured up a more satisfying scenario for himself than the latest chapter in that sorry tangle that passes for U.S.-Cuba policy. Nor could he have confected a better scheme for diverting attention from Cuba's...Tags: Interior Policy, Washington (U.S. state), University of California, Fidel Castro, Health and Safety at School
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Ambassador to Simon & Schuster
NEWS FLASH: PAKISTANI PRESIDENT Pervez Musharraf accuses a senior Bush administration official of threatening to bomb his country back to the Stone Age! We'll get on with this potentially serious diplomatic incident in a moment — but first, a word...Tags: United Nations, George W. Bush, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Civil Unrest, Hamid Karzai
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The place is a mess, but it beats Plan B
David Rieff is the author of "At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention" and "A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis," among other books.AS KOFI ANNAN'S tenure as United Nations secretary-general limps to its inglorious close, the prestige and even the future of the world organization he came into office determined to revitalize could scarcely seem bleaker. In the minds of many...Tags: Hinduism, Washington (U.S. state), Religious Conflicts, Bashar Assad, Ban Ki-moon
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Give Bolton the Boot
STEPHEN SCHLESINGER is the author, most recently, of "Act of Creation," on the founding of the United Nations.ALL SUMMER, the Bush administration has been pressuring the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to make John Bolton the permanent U.S. envoy to the United Nations. Bolton is serving until January on a temporary assignment because his notorious anti-U.N....Tags: United Nations, Washington (U.S. state), Arthur Goldberg, Defense, Adlai Stevenson
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