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Koreas pledge peace
SEOUL – The leaders of North and South Korea yesterday pledged to seek a peace treaty to formally end the Korean War and expand projects to reduce tension on the world’s last Cold War frontier, a day after Pyongyang committed to unprecedented steps toward dismantling its nuclear weapons program.
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Polls slash Labour lead
LONDON – Polls released yesterday suggest Britain’s opposition Conservatives have closed the electoral gap on the Labour Party of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who is considering calling an early election.
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US Speaker defends extension of children’s health program
Praying W. won’t veto
WASHINGTON — US President George W. Bush told House Speaker Nancy Pelosi yesterday he will veto a major expansion of a children’s health program despite the large margins it won this week in the House and Senate.
Pelosi said she told Bush in a morning phone call that she was praying...
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Argentina, European Union mark 15 years of cooperation
EuroPosgrados Expo
BY MICHAEL SOLTYS
HERALD STAFF Today and tomorrow the Expo EuroPosgrados 2007 exhibition at the Buenos Aires Design auditorium (Av. Pueyrredón 2501) will be opening up opportunities at over 100 European campuses for Argentine scholars, scientists and the educationally hungry in general.
This important event was heralded yesterday by a seminar to...
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Still marching, after 30 years
AP
30 years to the day after they first wore their trademark white scarfs, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo gathered in Plaza de Mayo outside of Government House in downtown Buenos Aires yesterday. More than a hundred mothers of children who diappeared during the 1976-83 Argentine military dictatorship were...
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Pinochet associates arrested
SANTIAGO — The widow and five children of Gen. Augusto Pinochet were among 23 people indicted yesterday on charges of corruption related to the dictator’s US bank accounts, a judge announced.
Most of the suspects, including widow Lucia Hiriart, 84, and Pinochet’s grown children, have already been arrested, police director Arturo...
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Colombian capabilities not endorsed by visiting US defense sec. Gates
While Gates said he was greatly impressed, he later said he would not readily advise using such operations to rescue the three US citizens currently being held by Colombian leftist rebels. ‘‘It’s a very iffy proposition. Everything has to be just right,’’ Gates told reporters later while flying from Colombia to Chile.
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Paraguayan VP to seek presidency
ASUNCION — Paraguay’s vice- president presented his resignation to Congress yesterday so he can seek the ruling party’s nomination in 2008 presidential elections.
Luis Castiglioni is one of several people seeking the Colorado Party’s nomination for the presidency. The party will choose its candidate in mid-December.
Paraguay’s Constitution requires that all candidates...
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US House passes a bill stemming from Iraqi Blackwater incident
Oversight of contractors
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives passed a bill yesterday that would make all private contractors working in Iraq and other combat zones subject to prosecution by US courts. It was the first major legislation of its kind to pass since a deadly shooting last month involving Blackwater employees. Democrats...
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AP count: deaths in Afghanistan on the rise
KABUL — Insurgency-related deaths in Afghanistan were 55 percent higher in the first nine months of 2007 compared to last year, as violence since the 2001 US-led invasion surpassed all previous highs, according to an Associated Press analysis.
The spike comes as US and NATO-led troops fight ferocious battles with the...
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Batasuna hierarchy arrested
MADRID — Spanish police detained more than 20 senior members of an outlawed Basque party that is considered to be the political wing of the armed separatist group ETA yesterday, officials said.
The Batasuna party officials were arrested in the northern town of Segura after Spain’s National Court issued a detention...
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Burmese dictator would meet Suu Kyi, if...
YANGON — Hoping to deflect outrage over images of soldiers gunning down protesters, Burma’s hardline leader announced yesterday he is willing to talk with detained democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi — but only if she stops calling for international sanctions.
Senior Gen. Than Shwe also insists Suu Kyi give up...
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Possible terror attacks in Europe
Qaeda target: Paris sewers?
PARIS — The CIA has warned counterparts in Europe of the possibility of terror attacks in several countries, with Paris’ sewage system among the suggested targets, a French official said yesterday.
The U.S. spy agency warned that al Qaeda agents may be planning suicide or bombing attacks in London and cities...
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All South African gold miners rescued
AP
A jubilant miner is seen after emerging from an entombment a kilometer below ground at the Elansrand gold mine in South Africa yesterday. The last of 3,200 miners trapped for more than 24 hours were brought safely to the surface late yesterday, officials said, ending one of South Africa’s biggest-ever...
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90 years after horror of Passchendaele
PASSCHENDAELE, Belgium — Australian and New Zealand leaders led tributes yesterday to the 10,000 soldiers from their nations who died 90 years ago this month in one of the bloodiest battles of World War I.
They also laid to rest the remains of five recently found soldiers.
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Helen...
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34 skeletons of Stalin victims
MOSCOW — Russian workers renovating a Tsarist noble’s mansion in Moscow found 34 skeletons, probably killed during Josef Stalin’s purges, police said yesterday. Workers found the remains and a rusty pistol underneath a basement at a mansion formerly owned by the Sheremetev family and a few paces from the secret...
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Remembering the launching of the space age
Sputnik, 50 years later
MOSCOW — Russia yesterday celebrated the anniversary of the satellite launch that opened the space age 50 years ago, mixing nostalgic memories of Sputnik and the space race with pledges to revive Soviet-era space glory.
Goose-stepping guards and medal-bedecked space veterans laid flowers at the tomb of the iconic father of...
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Gearing up for Putin’s potential power play
The debate over whether Russia is a functioning democracy is one that has occupied international attention ever since Vladimir Putin came to power in 1999. Putin’s possible stay as Russia’s de facto leader from the Prime Minister’s seat after his presidential tenure comes to an official end in 2008 it could be an undeniable symbol that Moscow is once again under autocratic rule.
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Ellen Goodman
There’s something rotten in US child rearing
In a scenario Karl Marx couldn't have made up, the winners of the war were dubbed “upper class,” the runners-up were labeled “merchants,” then “cooks,” and finally “laborers.” The little capitalists were allowed to use their very unequal paychecks for very unequal chores to pay for goodies at the town store. The producers did everything but deny the lower-income children their health coverage.
The only hero so far in CBS’s Kid Nation is 8-year-old Jimmy, the New Hampshire boy who had the good sense to go home. As for the rest? The children of Bonanza didn't make the rules. They inherited them. It's not a kid nation. It's our nation.
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