Word: il
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chicago, IL...
Desmond, who has been with Time for 11 years, is known for his analytical talents, whether pulling together disparate material, as he did in covering the North Korean nuclear-inspection debacle, or thinking beyond immediate events, as when he outlined the implications of President Kim Il Sung's death. But he has reported on catastrophes too, from Afghanistan to Northern Ireland...
...none was more threatening than the challenge directed at Berlusconi personally, the tycoon who had been swept into power earlier this year on a tide of anticorruption sentiment. Even as he was host to a U.N. conference in Naples on combatting organized crime, the Prime Minister, once dubbed Il Cavaliere, or the knight, found himself among the knaves as he was formally placed under investigation by magistrates engaged in a bribery probe of Fininvest, his business empire...
...Edgar, Gov. IL...
...interviews, South Korean intelligence personnel always accompany the defectors, and there is no way to check the accuracy of their stories. Some tales do not even ring true. Last year army Lieut. Kim Young Seon told debriefers that he knew of a coup attempt against Kim Il Sung and a nuclear accident that had claimed hundreds of lives. Most experts agree that in highly secretive North Korea, no low-ranking officer could have access to such information. Other defectors reveal secrets that sound plausible. Ahn Myung Jon, a military infiltration expert, said he used his skills to cross the heavily...