Word: delayer
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...Musharraf has no doubt that al-Qaeda ordered the three assassination attempts. The mastermind, he says, was a Libyan named Abu Faraj Farj who is hiding "somewhere in the mountains," probably near Afghanistan. But Musharraf has been forced to delay taking on domestic extremists because of their complicated history with the Pakistani government and army. Some militant organizations now allied to bin Laden were once clandestinely funded and supported by Pakistan's spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), to wage war in Afghanistan and Indian-controlled Kashmir. (In the case of the Kashmir conflict, Pakistan has always denied giving...
...doesn't appear particularly eager to know. Officially, the government says it is waiting for the last in a series of tests to confirm that a 14-month-old boy died Sept. 5 of H5N1 bird flu. Yet one Vietnamese health official told TIME the real cause for the delay is the desire to avoid a fresh bird-flu controversy before an Asian-European summit in Hanoi next month. "For the time being, we are just identifying it as flu type A H5 and we don't plan to identify what strain it is," says Tran Duc Long, deputy legal...
...National Rifle Association, who insist that the public is not in fact in favor of the ban, have argued that the law has huge loopholes. Indeed, some gun manufacturers have been producing weapons with slight cosmetic changes to sidestep the intent of the law. Senate Majority Leader Tom Delay, R.-Texas, has derided the ban as an ineffective “feel-good piece of legislation.” To be sure, whatever ambiguity existing in the current legislation is problematic. But the existence of loopholes is not an argument for throwing out the ban altogether; it is an argument...
When Chris White, a page from New Hampshire, asked whether voting should be required, panelist Susan Hirschmann, the former chief of staff to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, was appalled...
...compound derived from an ancient Chinese herbal remedy, artemisia, "cures 90% of patients within three days, but it is in short supply." However, in your May 31, 1993, issue you reported that an artemisia remedy was "a couple of years away from widespread use." Perhaps there has been a delay in production because the cost has been overestimated and the rewards underestimated. But the firm that produces an affordable artemisia tablet would enjoy tremendous brand-name recognition worldwide. JACQUES M. DEWULF Wemmel, Belgium...