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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cohen plans to continue writing while at Harvard and beyond. This past fall he hired an agent, and says he has started receiving calls from other agents interested in his work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beavis, Butthead AND Cohen | 3/9/1996 | See Source »

...since they recently dropped leaflets over Havana urging revolution, their missions cannot really be considered merely civilian. To dramatize the seriousness of this action, would the U.S. allow Russian planes to drop handbills encouraging revolt over Washington, D.C.? Furthermore, the Cubans claim to have gained intelligence from a double agent who infiltrated Brothers to the Rescue that the group was planning acts of sabotage. In the full context of this situation, it is easy to see why Castro, who takes personal responsibility for the attack, would be a little quick on the trigger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Castro Wasn't Wrong | 3/6/1996 | See Source »

...said a senior Jordanian security official, "and sick in his mind to the extent that he believes only he can be the savior of Iraq and anyone else who attempts to save Iraq is a traitor." As for those in the Iraqi opposition, they dismissed him as a bloody agent of the repression they had fled. "He made approaches to a lot of us," said Ahmed Chalabi, leader of an opposition group. "He wanted us to follow him and cooperate. But nobody took him seriously. We consider him a war criminal. We didn't slam the door in his face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEAD ON ARRIVAL | 3/4/1996 | See Source »

With missionary zeal, Galatis continued to forward allegations to the NRC. Yet four months passed before Galatis finally heard from Donald Driskill, an agent with the NRC's Office of Investigations (the second watchdog unit inside the NRC, this one tracks wrongdoing by utilities). Galatis felt that Driskill was too relaxed about the case. Driskill talked to Northeast about Galatis' charges--a breach of confidentiality that the NRC calls "inadvertent." When Hadley complained to him about Northeast's alleged harassment of Galatis, Driskill suggested he talk to Northeast's lawyer: "He's a really nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NUCLEAR WARRIORS | 3/4/1996 | See Source »

...international coalition of citizens' groups in the U.S., the Pacific area and Russia that are working together to advocate safe disposal of these hideous weapons. The Army has the capability today to eliminate the risk of continued storage of its aging, leaky M-55 rockets by draining the nerve agent from them and storing it in safe, airtight bulk containers. Unfortunately, the Army has been more interested in pushing forward its incineration program than in protecting the safety of our communities. I live near Richmond, Kentucky, the site of one of the Army's nine chemical-weapons stockpiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 4, 1996 | 3/4/1996 | See Source »

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