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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...asylum case, best be equipped with a briefcaseful of shocking state secrets. Then you'll both end up on "60 Minutes" and with red-carpet treatment from the State Department. Washington looks likely to give serious attention to the claims of Ahmad Behbahani, the self-styled former Iranian intelligence honcho who, despite being sequestered in a Turkish refugee camp, managed to get his message to the Sunday-night CBS news show. His bombshell claim: that Iran, rather than Libya, was the power behind the December 1988 Lockerbie bombing. In fact, Behbahani claims to have been personally involved in supervising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why New Claims Won't Change Flt. 103 Trial | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...that same chamber 14 years before, Gore cast some other pivotal votes--ones that made him a hero to the gun lobby and that could come back to haunt him. "We could have made Al Gore NRA Man of the Year--every single vote," says National Rifle Association honcho Wayne LaPierre. "It's the most spectacular conversion I've ever seen. It's worthy of being investigated by the church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gore's Gun Problem | 2/14/2000 | See Source »

...TRIAL GRANTED. TO PATRICK NAUGHTON, 34, ex-Infoseek honcho convicted last month of possessing cyber child porn; in Los Angeles. An appeals court ruled parts of federal child-porn law unconstitutional. Retrial is set for March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jan. 31, 2000 | 1/31/2000 | See Source »

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