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...President Clinton signed a top-secret order, approved by the congressional intelligence committees, that authorized the CIA to begin covert operations to break up bin Laden's terror network. The agency's counter-terrorism center ... had set up a special bin Laden task force. Analysts were assigned to read every word the Saudi had spoken or written. Computers with sophisticated 'link analysis' programs were busy printing out diagrams of bin Laden's loose-knit network, which included thousands of Muslim fighters ... In early 1996, intelligence sources tell TIME, the CIA also began making plans to 'snatch' Osama from a foreign...
Although several members of the Cambridge City Council sought to begin granting marriage licenses immediately after the SJC’s November ruling, the city had to wait until the end of a 180-day court-mandated stay period. But councillors passed an order calling on the city clerk to issue licenses “as soon as legally possible,” which meant opening the offices at midnight on the day the ruling took effect...
...cementing his reputation as the man to beat. Sarkozy may well run for the presidency of the party at its next general convention in November. If he doesn't run, he'll certainly put up a "sarkoziste" for that post, running against a Chirac loyalist. And that doesn't begin to exhaust the currents within the ump. Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, 43, for example, says he wants to lead the party back to its Gaullist roots. "The President's positions on the constitution and on Turkey are untenable - the party doesn't want to go with him," he says. "We need...
...Harvard men’s tennis team will begin this weekend’s two regional rounds of the NCAA tennis tournament with a match against Quinnipiac, a team as fresh and inexperienced as the Crimson is veteran and established. Entering tomorrow’s contest, the Bobcats (12-4, 8-0 Northeast) will have everything to gain at the Beren Tennis Center—but will the Crimson (17-6, 7-0 Ivy) feel the pressure of having everything to lose...
...Matches begin today at 11 a.m. at the Beren Tennis Center...