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Less than a month afterPresident Clinton blocked a $1 billion deal between Conoco Oil and Iran, the Royal Dutch-Shell Group is treading where U.S. companies now cannot. The Anglo-Dutch company acknowledged its negotiations today, but would not confirm reports that it sought the same lucrative contract that the Houston-based Conoco was forced to give up. SaysTIME business writer John Greenwald: "This shows that when you try to hurt Iran by barring American companies from doing business with it, foreign companies are only too willing to rush...
Time is different. The moral here is not to confirm from an old man's confessions that he was really responsible for a wrong war. Rather, as McNamara points out, the main reason that he has convinced himself to speak is to help us find "something we can take away from Vietnam that is constructive and applicable to the world of today and tomorrow." Or, to put in a Dan Quayle way, let's discuss wars in terms of not having them...
Reached at her Brooklyn, N.Y., home yesterday,Yatrakis refused to confirm the accuracy of theTimes report...
...University could neither acknowledge nor refute the existence of the committee. The Harvard press office issued the following statement: "It is the policy of Harvard University to neither confirm nor deny information relating to personnel matters, including those regarding members of its faculty...
...believes Iran is sending weapons to Bosnia's Muslim-led government in violation of a U.N. embargo on shipping arms to thecivil war-ravaged Balkans. But the Clinton Administration would not confirm today's Washington Post report that says Iran has delivered "hundreds of tons" of weapons to Bosnian forces. And the Administration disputed the Post's assertion that the U.S. has tacitly approved of the shipments.TIME Defense correspondent Mark ThompsonsaysWashingtonis well aware that a large number of small arms have been pouring into Bosnia, some in U.S.-built military cargo planes. He says it's easy...