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...name, Ja'afer Dhaieh Ja'afer, is little known even in scientific circles, but U.S. intelligence sources have identified the Iraqi-born physicist as his country's version of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Ja'afer, a Shi'ite Muslim, is an outspoken human-rights advocate who has been jailed for his protests against Saddam Hussein's oppression. Yet he has been honing his country's nuclear capabilities since the early 1960s. He directed operations at the Osirak reactor until an Israeli raid destroyed it in 1981, and he later served as senior technician for the Tarmiya and Sharqat pilot plants, centerpieces...
Boggs, a five-time batting champion, reached the 1600-hit mark at the start of his ninth season. Boggs and Marty Barrett led off the first with singles and with one out, Ellis Burks was saved when first baseman Cecil Fielder dropped a foul popup for an error. Afer Burks walked, Evans doubled over center fielder Lloyd Moseby to the 420-foot mark...
...final vote came afer Hatch and a handful of other conservative Republicans long opposed to any increase made a spirited rhetorical effort to derail the compromise by defeating or amending...
ACCORDING to the polls, the signal was detected. A poll conducted shortly afer the convention revealed that 81 percent of Blacks said they will support Dukakis in November...
...universal sig nal for go. To be sure, there were times when the light turned red, but that was almost always after things had already gone too far?after all the money was spent and the stock market crashed, after a demagogue had swallowed a dozen countries, afer the ashes of millions had been blown away. Before then, lands off, wait and watch. In 1934 Cole Porter wrote Anything ties; in 1970 Paul McCartney sang...