Word: enriches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have ever produced such a gusher of speculation. Early next month, engineers will drill a 14,000-ft. well near Jarim Reef off the island of Bahrain, a tiny Persian Gulf nation not far from the world's richest oil deposits. If the exploratory pipe hits crude, it will enrich a cast of investors that includes the Bass brothers of Texas, the Rupert family of South Africa, the Harvard University endowment fund and George W. Bush, the President's eldest son. If the well is dry, the episode will prompt shareholders to wonder why they ever put faith...
...money launderers and gunrunners, B.C.C.I. may have financed the illicit development of nuclear weapons programs. The U.S. last week pressed efforts to extradite Inam ul-Haq, a retired Pakistani brigadier, on charges that he masterminded an abortive 1987 plot to smuggle to Pakistan an American speciality steel used to enrich weapons-grade uranium. B.C.C.I reportedly provided credit for the deal. But Pakistan, home of B.C.C.I. founder Agha Hasan Abedi, denied -- as it has in the past -- that it seeks to develop nuclear arms, and said the government had no connection with Inam, who was arrested by German authorities in Frankfurt...
...Saddam's scientists also tried a chemical-separation process and the calutrons. The U.S. had employed calutrons to enrich uranium used in the Hiroshima bomb, but then abandoned the technology because it is very expensive and produces enriched uranium only slowly and in small quantities. For Saddam, however, calutrons had advantages. The technology had been declassified and was discussed freely in scientific journals. The imported components had legitimate industrial uses and did not raise eyebrows in the West; better yet, Iraqi industry could produce most of the necessary components itself. Calutrons gulp enormous amounts of electricity, and the power lines...
...develop into a monstrous criminal enterprise whose activities ranged from laundering drug money to financing clandestine arms sales? Authorities seemed content for years to ignore mounting evidence, provided by private audits and former B.C.C.I. officers, of the bank's misdeeds. According to leaked audit reports, B.C.C.I. used deposits to enrich many of its Arab investors -- and then covered up the fraudulent transactions. The bank also cultivated a global network of political contacts to help keep regulators at bay. The heavy hitters included former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, since 1982 chairman of Washington's First American Bankshares, which B.C.C.I. secretly gained...
...there is not much doubt about what the Iraqis were doing. They were playing an exasperating, and dangerous, shell game with calutrons, which are World War II-era devices to enrich uranium so that it can produce a nuclear explosive. The IAEA concluded after a May inspection that calutrons had been present and then removed from a nuclear site in Tarmiyah, north of Baghdad. U.S. intelligence tracked the calutrons to the barracks and then to the Al Fallujah facility west of Baghdad, where the U.N. inspectors went last Friday -- only to find once again trucks carting equipment away. Several inspectors...