NPR's Ann Cooper reports that New York City refuses to back down in its standoff with foreign diplomats over the issue of illegal parking and unpaid tickets. The city has implemented new parking guidelines under which UN diplomats must pay their tickets within a year or lose their diplomatic license plates. A UN committee has given the State Department a week to resolve those parts of the new guidelines which it considers unacceptable. New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani says the new rules do not violate international law and that the State Department should not be intimidated.
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