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Gov. Bill Richardson is coming clean on his draft record _ the baseball draft, that is, admitting that his claim to have been a pick of the Kansas City A's in 1966 was untrue. For nearly four decades, Richardson, often mentioned as a possible Democratic presidential candidate, has maintained he was drafted by the Kansas City Athletics. The claim was included in a brief biography released when Richardson successfully ran for Congress in 1982. A White House news release in 1997 mentioned it when he was about to be named U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. And several news organizations,...

SEOUL (AFX) - US politician Bill Richardson, hoping to persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons, arrived in Pyongyang today for a three-day visit, the North's official media reported. 'Bill Richardson, governor of New Mexico State of the United States, and his party arrived here Monday,' the Korean Central News Agency said in a brief dispatch. Richardson said Friday his three-day trip to North Korea was unofficial but White House-backed and is aimed at giving momentum to the six-way nuclear disarmament talks. The US governor will visit Japan and South Korea to brief officials in Tokyo and Seoul of...