Word: confirming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Aguilar described to TIME how, working through intermediaries, Raul Salinas arranged for the killing of Ruiz Massieu, a political leader his associates called a "data bank" on Raul's corruption. The story is colorful but, with many of the key figures in jail or out of reach, difficult to confirm...
Though there is no dispute over the writing credits, Norman admits he is beginning to feel "burned" by hearing the movie repeatedly called Stoppardian. He says, "In terms of the story, structure and the language--I accomplished that in my screenplay." But both men confirm that many of the jokes that dazzle past--the Stratford-upon-Avon mug; the pub waiter offering a special of "pig's foot marinated in juniper vinegar served on a buckwheat pancake"--are indeed Stoppard...
...Indian police Wednesday announced the arrest of four men -- including a Bangladeshi national who Indian authorities claim was working for Pakistani intelligence -- accusing them of planning to bomb the U.S. embassy on January 26. U.S. investigators have flown to India to interrogate the suspects. "It's too early to confirm that this is Bin Laden," says Dowell. But even if the India plot doesn't pan out, Bin Laden is likely to planning more dramatic attacks. Says Dowell, "He needs the publicity...
...been dogged for years by the rumor that in Arkansas he fathered a child of an African-American prostitute. In 1992 the tale was flogged by the tabloid Globe. But it really took off last week when news leaked that the tabloid Star was conducting DNA tests to confirm or refute the rumor once and for all, provoking a frenzy of speculation in Washington after the story leaped, in the usual fashion, from the Drudge Report to the New York Post to papers around the world. Using the Starr Report's FBI analysis of Clinton's DNA as its reference...
...past six years, neither girl has had a further infusion of her own altered T cells. Both are taking reduced doses of PEG-ADA, and periodic tests confirm that their re-engineered cells are surviving and producing the ADA enzyme...