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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambridge teenager was shot across the street from the mall's main entrance...
...Saturday, the Kremlin announced that Yeltsin had entered Moscow's Central Clinic Hospital for routine preoperative tests. This does not seem to indicate that the operation is imminent. In fact, there are signs it may not happen until October, rather than late September, as originally announced. The main reason seems to be the fear, voiced in the medical world and circles close to the Kremlin, that Yeltsin's health problems may be more serious. "A heart bypass is pretty conventional surgery," says an experienced Moscow surgeon. But, he adds, "the President seems to show symptoms of general atherosclerosis." This makes...
...second CIA-sponsored effort in Iraq involved the I.N.C. An Erbil-based umbrella group founded in 1992, the congress included 19 Iraqi and Kurdish organizations. "The CIA financed the group but did not direct its activities," says an agency official. The I.N.C.'s main tasks were to gather information, distribute propaganda and recruit dissidents. Two years ago, it published a fake issue of Babil, the daily newspaper owned by Saddam's eldest son Uday. The expertly counterfeited copy, distributed for one day in Baghdad, exposed many of Saddam's atrocities. The tactic backfired, however, because readers were more frightened than...
...that the Kurds were woefully unsophisticated spies. In one instance, they called into Saddam's regime on open phone lines, and their networks were easily penetrated. Worse, they could not stop fighting among themselves. The I.N.C. failed completely in its mission to serve as an arbiter between the two main Kurdish factions, led by Barzani and his rival, Jalal Talabani...
...main culprits are the amplifiers that sit along cable lines, keeping signals strong and clear during their downstream journey. Not only do these amps not work when messages are funneled upstream, they actually degrade signals already under assault from radio interference. "There's far more noise in the coaxial system than any of us expected to see," says a hardware executive who has been close to the cable-modem industry since its inception. "It's really difficult to drive the signals out over these lines. Every trial to date has run into that as a significant problem...