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...date. Prosecutors are refusing to comment on rumors that they may drop the case, though the accuser's attorneys went on television to suggest that she might have better luck with a civil case. As for the accuser herself, a friend tells TIME that the relentless publicity--including the mistaken release of her name on three occasions--has taken its toll: "She cut all ties to her friends. She's like a ghost...
...those who were involved." Nevertheless, though he prefers the stiletto to the sledgehammer, Butler did chronicle a damning parade of errors. It turns out that three of five British agents in Iraq whose reports helped convince London that Saddam was amassing a WMD stockpile were frauds, or mistaken. Because Saddam was such a serial liar, analysts repeatedly assumed the worst. In September 2002, when Blair's government wanted to convince the public to take a tougher line against Saddam, it turned to its top clearinghouse for secret information, the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), to produce a dossier on Iraq...
...country, that would give other terrorists an opportunity to attack America. It is disrespectful not to fight for those who died on 9/11. Alexis A. Emery Aberdeen, New Jersey, U.S. Reagan's Faith in Action In "the secrets of Reagan's success" [June 14], columnist Joe Klein was mistaken when he wrote that Reagan "never paid much more than lip service to the right-to-life movement." Reagan instituted the Mexico City policy, which prohibited foreign nongovernmental organizations that received U.S. funds from providing abortion, abortion-counseling referrals or related services, and reversed the U.S. commitment to international family planning...
...Secrets Of Reagan's Success" [June 14], columnist Joe Klein was mistaken when he wrote that Reagan "never paid much more than lip service to the right-to-life movement." Reagan instituted the Mexico City policy, which prohibited foreign nongovernmental organizations that received U.S. funds from providing abortion, abortion-counseling referrals or related services and reversed the U.S. commitment to international family planning. Moreover, he cut off funding for fetal-tissue research because his supporters didn't approve of medical science using aborted fetuses. The irony is that such research might well have led to a cure for Alzheimer...
...Local people have long been under the mistaken impression that poppy shells can make their dishes more delicious. They are not aware of the harm they will do to their health." Zhang Xing, drug-control official in China's Guizhou province, after more than 200 local restaurants were closed for spiking their food with opium poppies...