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...disagreement between the Speaker and Secretary Rice is procedural not substantive," said Ali Hamadan, a spokesman for Berri. "There are many points of agreement. But she wants to talk about how to bring stability to Lebanon and he's telling her, 'Let's go straight to a cease fire...
...that when Rice was in Lebanon in February, she said she'd love to come back to Lebanon and go skiing, to which Berri retorted, "The best skiing in Lebanon is in Sheba Farms." There are, in fact, no ski resorts in Sheba Farms.) According to Berri's spokesman Hamadan, negotiations with Israel should include not just a prisoner exchange, and the withdrawal of both Israel and Hizballah forces from the border, but also the fate of Sheba Farms...
...Alerted by some timely tipoffs, Islamic guards killed eight officers who were preparing to join another group and take over Nowjeh Air-base in Hamadan, 175 miles southwest of Tehran. The guards then arrested twelve pilots as they sat in their quarters awaiting the "coast-clear" signal from co-conspirators who were to have commandeered U.S.-built Phantom jets. Eleven other rebel groups, en route to the air-base in private cars and buses, somehow learned that the plot had been frustrated and went into hiding. Other insurgents in Tehran were supposed to attack the Central Committee of Islamic Militiamen...
...overthrow his government had been foiled on the eve of a coup d'état. Seventeen officers from an armored division had already been put on trial, he said. The plot was said to have been organized at a military base near the western Iranian city of Hamadan. At week's end, there were reports that 350 more conspirators, including such high-ranking officers as the former air force commander and the chief of the rural police, had been arrested in what appeared to be an attempt to purge the armed forces of all non-Islamic elements...
Across the huge land, almost equal in size to France, Germany, Spain and Italy combined, great factories are springing up everywhere-in Hamadan, once the capital of the Aryan Medes; in Tabriz, where Marco Polo was entertained by the mongol Khans; in Isfahan, whose fragrant splendors led the Arabs to call it "One Half of the World." The night sky flares bright in the oilfields of Abadan, where the Zoroastrians built fire temples over ducts of natural gas. A railroad is stretching out across the treacherous Dasht-i-Kavir Desert, once traversed only by spice caravans from the Orient...