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...government in an effort to win back his good name -- plus the $30 million or so he lost when the U.S. bombed his Sudan pharmaceutical factory last year. According to U.S. officials, Idris' plant in Khartoum stored chemical-weapons material and had links to Osama bin Laden, the alleged mastermind of attacks on two American embassies in Africa one year...
...Carrier, maker of air-conditioning systems --Walt Disney, creator of animation and multimedia empire --Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Co. --Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft --A.P. Giannini, architect of nationwide banking --Ray Kroc, hamburger meister --Estee Lauder, cosmetics tycoon --William Levitt, creator of suburbia --Lucky Luciano, criminal mastermind --Louis B. Mayer, Hollywood mogul --Charles Merrill, advocate of the small investor --Akio Morita, co-founder of Sony --Walter Reuther, labor leader --Pete Rozelle, football-league commissioner --David Sarnoff, father of broadcasting --Juan Trippe, aviation entrepreneur --Sam Walton, Wal-Mart dynamo --Thomas Watson Jr., IBM president...
...India accused Pakistan of planning an incursion by some 600 heavily-armed guerrillas, including what the Indian authorities call "Afghan mercenaries." (Many Kashmiri Islamic fighters are trained in the Afghan camps run by alleged terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden, which were targeted by U.S. missiles last year.) Pakistan denies the charge. Tensions in Kashmir have mounted over the past year, but the air strikes mark a dramatic escalation. India and Pakistan have fought three wars in 52 years, two of them over Kashmir. A festering border dispute could take on new meaning now that both sides have nuclear weapons...
Could this be true? Tipper Gore, fun-loving Tipper Gore, is really the secret mastermind at Gore headquarters? It was a bit hard to believe, but it at least had the virtue of being consistent with recent history. Like Hillary Clinton, who worked quietly behind the scenes to bring Dick Morris back from exile so he could rescue her struggling husband in 1994, Tipper hasn't been shy about telling her husband to snap out of it. And Tipper has been doing more than fixing things inside the Gore operation; she's also been fixing things on the outside. Just...
...York trial of an accused aide to alleged terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden may prove damaging to U.S. intelligence agencies. Former U.S. Army sergeant -- and Egyptian army major -- Ali Mohamed was indicted Wednesday on charges of conspiracy for his alleged role in providing military training to Bin Laden operatives intent on destroying the United States. Mohamed was charged after the failure of an eight-month attempt by U.S. law enforcement officials to get him to cooperate...