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Since the Gulf War, Taha, a British-trained biologist, has made a career of thwarting U.N. officials at every turn. She is, says one of them, "a consummate liar." First she claimed that her program had been strictly defensive, and then that all Iraq's biological agents had been destroyed. When inspectors uncovered caches of germ agents, she blandly claimed that only a few small quantities had survived. "Iraq has said that it destroyed stockpiles of biological weapons after the war," says Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon. "We have absolutely no confirmation that that has happened. We assume that they...
Safire remarked jokingly that he did not really call First Lady Hillary Clinton a "congenital liar," as Kalb had alleged, but a "congenial lawyer...
...Polanski and George Hamilton. Barbieri, who says her support of Simpson during the criminal trial led to the loss of all her money, her career and her apartment (although she reportedly got $3 million for the book, which should ease the sting a touch), now claims O.J. was a liar--especially about other women--but that she still loves him. In another new book, I'm Not Dancing Anymore, O.J.'s niece Terri Baker expresses her own doubts about O.J.'s innocence. She also writes that he wasn't such a great uncle either...
WHAT'S NEXT--ADS ON YOUR FINGERNAILS? Next week the Fruit Label Co. will paste ads for the video of Liar Liar on 6 million apples in Los Angeles and New York City. A Lost World ad is due Nov. 3. Tasty? No. Annoying...
Andrew Cunanan created his own worlds too. They just didn't work out. For years he had insinuated himself into the lives of well-off, older gay men. An adroit and tireless liar, he told friends in San Diego he was Andrew DeSilva, a man with a factory in Mexico, or wealthy parents in the Philippines, or a wife and daughter--the ones in the photo he would pass around that he got from who knows where. But by last April, when police say he started a cross-country killing spree that climaxed in the fatal shooting of Versace...