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Fitzwater made clear that the money would bechanneled through some third-party organization orintermediary, such as the Red Crescent, an arm ofthe Red Cross, and not the Iranian government...
...Palestinian activists, with little recourse for appeal. The cases carry a numbing similarity. Around midnight on Feb. 1, for example, there was a knock at the door of Ezzidine al Aryan's home in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The pharmacist and head of the city's Red Crescent (Arab Red Cross) was at prayer. Aryan, 51, was taken to Jneid prison, where he languished in a cell for nearly three months. One day a judge handed down an order for six months of "administrative detention," based on charges contained in a file marked SECRET. On May 4, Aryan...
...exactly 2:40 a.m. last Tuesday, under the orange glow of a crescent moon, a small group of scientists gathered expectantly at an archaeological site south of the Great Pyramid of Cheops at Giza, just outside Cairo. They did not carry hand picks or shovels. Instead, they watched a TV monitor as a miniature camera was lowered into a narrow hole in the ground. When the video image flickered to life, the group gasped. There before them, inside a chamber that had been sealed 4,600 years ago, lay the dismantled timbers of a wooden ship. The archaeologists immediately recognized...
...shirts and oversize jeans, the sailors were bound by the wrists with plastic handcuffs, their ankles were tied with cord, and each crewman was put on a cot in the ship's vehicle-storage room. On Saturday they were flown to Oman and released to the International Red Crescent (the Islamic version of the Red Cross) for repatriation. Their ill-fated ship was packed with explosives and scuttled in deep water off Bahrain...
...during the daytime; its appearance was noted not only by the Chinese and Japanese but possibly also by Indians in the American Southwest. The New World evidence comes in the form of images carved and painted on rock walls in northern Arizona showing a celestial object adjacent to a crescent moon. There is no proof that this primitive artwork represents the supernova, but archaeological dating techniques show the Indians were in the area when the star flared, and astronomers have calculated that the supernova indeed appeared in the sky very close to the crescent moon...