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...pharaohs would be pleased to know they have held on to a few of their secrets. After all, they dug their tombs deep into hillsides, where the crypts would be safe, they hoped, from the rabble and robbers. What they never counted on was the need for parking lots...
...Ames were spending at least $30,000 a month with credit cards. By August the team knew that hundreds of thousands of dollars had been deposited in Ames' accounts in the Dominion Bank of Virginia, much of the money from wire transfers of undetermined origin. As the mole hunters dug into Ames' bank accounts in the fall of 1992, they discovered that by that time, wire transfers of about $1 million and cash deposits of more than $500,000 had been made...
Clinton will have to continue measuring each move he makes. To overpoliticize the tragedy would cost him dearly in the eyes of an already skeptical public. With that in mind, Clinton might decide that one bit of information he received last week was a positive omen. As rescuers dug through the remains of the Murrah building, they found a wall that had originally stood in the lobby but had collapsed into the basement. Still hanging from the wall were two framed photographs, one of Vice President Al Gore, the other of Bill Clinton...
Administration officials dug in after President Clinton's decision Sunday tosever all trade with Iran, warning that the Gulf power would soonbecome a threatening nuclear powerif other nations do not follow the U.S. lead. "If Iran gets substantial foreign help, it'll be able to build nuclear weapons sooner rather than later," Secretary of State Warren Christopher told a news conference. Going into greater detail than ever before, Christopher said that for the past decade Iran has tried to produce plutonium and highly enriched uranium.TIME White House correspondent James Carneysays Clinton is trying to use his tough example to persuade...
...Dug-in opposition remains. A wolf released in February in central Idaho was shot last month, supposedly because it had killed a calf. Not true; investigation showed, as Askins says without much surprise, "the wolf was framed." She and other wolf activists realized the most likely cause of death for Yellowstone wolves would be gunfire from die-hard wolf haters. So they took a risk, listing the Yellowstone and Idaho wolves not as fully protected endangered animals, which would have provoked retaliation, but as an experimental population that can be controlled if it is troublesome. Some ranchers were reassured...