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...were terrorists, and there is no evidence he or they had any connection to al-Qaeda. But his story arrived in Washington as U.S. security officials were going on full holiday alert. Pakistani authorities came up with information about an alien-smuggling scheme that dovetailed with the forger's account. On Dec. 27, Islamabad gave the FBI photos and names or aliases of five men thought to be among the 19 smuggled aliens Hamdani had served. The U.S. quickly put out an unusually prominent all-points bulletin for the five. "We don't have any idea of what their intentions...
...North Korean danger so as not to disrupt its timetable for a strike against Iraq. Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher told TIME that the Administration "seems to have almost an obsession" with Saddam. "I'm concerned that we seem to be lurching toward war without taking into account what our priorities should be." The White House insists that Iraq remains a greater menace than North Korea, in part because Saddam has already shown he is willing to use weapons of mass destruction. But some foreign-policy veterans, including Christopher, think North Korea poses the bigger strategic threat, given...
Pulikovsky claims Kim encouraged him to write the account of the trip, saying, "There are too many mysteries about me; let the people know the truth." When Albright was in Pyongyang, Kim took her to a packed stadium to witness a mammoth, highly scripted display of support for the regime. "He took great personal pride in having choreographed a lot of it," she recalls. Albright concluded that Kim saw himself as a director of a great drama, someone with a flair if not a weakness for the big show. Certainly that is a trait on display now. --With reporting...
...Mart is mounting an audacious expansion that could double its sales within just five years, to $480 billion. Some of that growth will come in new markets abroad, where 1,200 stores in nine countries already account for about 16% of the chain's total sales. But even more growth will be won as the chain insinuates itself into more U.S. neighborhoods and invades more product categories...
...adding categories such as PCs, ceiling fans, more fashionable clothing and gasoline. And last week the company announced it will begin offering the basic financial services already available in some stores - check cashing, money orders - to all its U.S. customers, many of whom don't have a bank account. It wants to be in any category where it can lower prices. "Their goal is to have a 30% share of every major business they are in and they are pretty serious about it," says Linda Kristiansen, a retail analyst for UBS Warburg Equity Research. They are also serious about global...