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...from most outside investment and lending. Bhutto's recent efforts to improve relations by cooperating with the U.S. on terror and drug investigations have outraged even moderate Pakistanis, who felt their government kowtowed to Washington by extraditing Ramzi Yousef within 24 hours of his arrest. Wrote commentator Ayaz Amir in the respected national newsmagazine the Herald: "The U.S. may do as it pleases in Pakistan--cut off aid, pressure it on its nuclear program, twist its arms over the drug trade, use it as it did during the heady days of the Afghan jihad--and then discard it like...
...reach a settlement. For two days, Qassemlou, his deputy Abdullah Ghaderi-Azar, 37, and Fadhil Rasoul, 38, a Vienna-based Iraqi Kurd serving as a mediator, talked in a borrowed apartment with interior-ministry official Mohammed Jaafari Sahraroudi and Hadji Moustafavi, a.k.a. Ladjeverdi, an intelligence operative. A third Iranian, Amir Mansour Bozorgian, stood guard at the door...
...simultaneously Eliot has resisted the temptation to abandon the qualities of the house which have distinguished its truly hallowed halls. "Even with non-ordered choice, we have still managed to maintain our character as Eliot House," says Amir Goldkorn '94. "We have not succumbed to the forces that are making other houses just like dorms...
...army insists that the soldiers are abiding by the rules. "We are not killers. We only try to catch the fugitives and make them talk," said Amir Rosenberg, one of the five commandos in the first raid in search of Jaradat; Rosenberg was shot to death by a Red Eagle last month. "I have no problem with what we do. Whom are we talking about? About people who have already killed or committed a terrorist act." Added a comrade: "Believe me, if we used our guns as freely as the media say, the ground would be littered with hundreds...
...Last year there was a lot of interest sparked for the ski club, but we didn't quite get things going," said Amir Khosrowshahi '93, the other club co-founder. "This year we're trying to harness that interest...