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...including the American Medical Association and the World Health Organization--and despite the FDA's renewed assurances last week that radiation at its recommended dosages affects neither a food's taste nor its nutritional value in any detectable way--irradiated poultry, vegetables and fruits are almost as rare as Iranian caviar in U.S. markets. Though NASA has long irradiated food for space flights, the only widely sold "nuked" consumer products on U.S. terra firma are baby-bottle nipples, cosmetics, bandages, tampons, contact-lens cleaning fluids, juice and milk cartons and wine corks...
TEHRAN: Too good to be true? Curiously co-incidental detentes may be breaking out between the U.S. and its Persian Gulf bugaboos, Iran and Iraq. To wit: Iranian President Mohammed Khatami says he wants to talk ? and according to TIME Middle East correspondent Scott MacLeod, it's a genuine offer. Meanwhile Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz is embroiled in potentially positive discussions with Richard Butler, chief U.N. weapons inspector, over opening up more sites to inspectors of all nations ? even American ones...
...about talking. Will any of it get anywhere? The Pentagon remains skeptical about how far the relatively new and moderate Khatami can go with his olive branch, given the entrenched opposition of Iran's hard-line ruling clergy. "To succeed," says MacLeod, "Khatami has to overcome hardliners within the Iranian system, and hawkish elements in the U.S. who oppose any rapprochement with Tehran." But he's already come a long way. Who'd have thought we'd ever hear "I take this opportunity to pay my respects to the great American people" from an Iranian leader? Sure makes a difference...
Ever since that time, I have become more convinced such is the basic purpose of all religions. I may be wrong, but has the climate now changed? --Richard N. Frye, Aga Khan Professor of Iranian, Emeritus
...inspectors to respect "the sovereignty of Iraq," they mean: Stay out of secret military and intelligence bases and presidential offices. These are precisely where inspectors believe some of the missing arsenals are hidden. Zilinskas thinks Saddam may be hiding other "unsavory materials," such as videos showing germ experiments on Iranian prisoners of war during the 1980s...