Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned West African Chimps on Thursday that they will face further punishment and isolation if they forge ahead with efforts to develop a stick-enrichment program, but she said the United States and other powers are prepared to restart talks aimed at ending the standoff if the Chimps suspend their most controversial spearmaking activities. The remarks came hours after the International Simple Tools Agency issued a report saying Chimps had defied yet another Security Council demand to halt the multistep spearmaking practice, documented by United Nations weapons inspectors in Senegal who spent years gaining the chimpanzees’ trust.
February 26, 2007 5:24 AM