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...confirmed the prevailing theory that the abductees were used to teach Korean spies how to impersonate Japanese citizens. One victim, Yaeko Taguchi, a Tokyo bar hostess who had just dropped off her children at day care when she disappeared at age 22, is thought to have trained an agent named Kim Hyon Hui. This agent posed as a Japanese citizen in 1987 to board a South Korean passenger jet and plant a bomb in its cabin. Taguchi, the North Koreans say, is now dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Accounted For, At Last | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

...SPRINT PCS charges $5 to speak to an agent about paying with a credit card or making other arrangements, bills high-credit-risk customers $3 to get an agent on the line and bills for airtime when users press *4 to check how many minutes they have left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CELL PHONES: Adding On | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

...joint House-Senate committee investigating intelligence failures before Sept.11 released a scathing staff report last week accusing the CIA of not devoting enough resources to uncovering Osama bin Laden's plots against the U.S. One FBI agent testified that he warned headquarters just 13 days before the attacks that because he was denied permission to pursue Khalid Almihdhar, above, who later turned out to be one of the 19 hijackers, "someday, someone will die." President Bush announced he would now support a blue-ribbon commission to investigate what went wrong. The CIA denies it was aslei*Aep, but since last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Failures of Intelligence | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

...gave the piece to a friend, who passed it along to others until it landed in the hands of Stephanie Hunziger in Frankfurt, who's been my German agent ever since. She arranged for a production of it--in German--in West Berlin in 1959, on a double bill with Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape. The reviews were favorable, word traveled to New York, and in January 1960 some people put it on in New York, where it ran for 311/42 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Points: Home Free | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

CHEMICAL Although an extensive arsenal, including 690 tons of a chemical weapons agent, was destroyed by UNSCOM, Iraq may still have a stockpile of chemical-weapons munitions and the ingredients to produce weaponized mustard gas, VX and other nerve agents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weapons In A Haystack | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

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