Word: iranians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Over My Life." But The Other Side is just the latest entry in a fast-growing TV genre that rivals the most irrepressible supermarket tabloids in promoting pseudoscience and the paranormal. No claims seem too outlandish for the ratings-hungry producers: pets that are psychic; ufos that battle with Iranian fighter pilots; people who travel in time or have "out-of-body" experiences...
...investigators are now investigating whether the two new suspects had targeted Drug Enforcement Administration offices in the Murrah building. A Lebanese source close to Iranian radicals and their Lebanese allies in Hizballah toldTIME Beirut correspondent Lara Marlowehe was "certain" that Islamists had not carried out the Oklahoma bombing: "They may have used Middle Easterners or Islamists to do it -- a lot of people in this part of the world known how to make car bombs -- but the real reason was drugs...
...sides. Not only was Christopher loudly opposing the deal, but Alfonse D'Amato, who chairs the Senate Banking Committee, was using it to escalate his two-month-old crusade for a virtual halt to all American commerce with Iran. While U.S. oil firms have long been barred from buying Iranian crude oil, their foreign subsidiaries are free to purchase it and sell it abroad...
Nicandros had little success in pleading his case at the Departments of Energy and State. Senior Clinton adviser Mack McLarty finally told him point-blank two weeks ago that the Iranian project was almost certainly doomed. Acknowledging defeat, Nicandros asked only that the Administration issue an Executive Order that would at least make his defeat seem imposed...
Conoco executives might have recognized the Administration's concerns sooner if contacts between the company and Washington had been more high-level and open from the start. Conoco discussed the Iranian deal only with midrank diplomats at U.S. outposts in Dubai, Kuwait and London, as well as in Washington, repeatedly since 1991--including four times in the past 18 months. Nor did State policymakers ever say they flatly opposed the Iranian negotiations. Michael Stinson, who headed the Conoco project, told Congress last week that "the typical response was, 'The U.S. would prefer that you not do this deal...