Word: persian
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...injure 500 people a week, including many children. A U.S. ban seems certain to be enacted, though opponents are still arguing over details. Possible exceptions to any blanket prohibition on American use of mines include their deployment in the Korean Demilitarized Zone or in the event of a Persian Gulf war. Pentagon officials, having already backed away from a 2010 deadline for ending most mine use as being too late, want the ban to take effect in 2001. But the White House wants to perpetuate a yearlong ban on U.S. antipersonnel land-mine use, pushed through Congress last year...
...courses he or she plans to take in the next four years is absurd. How can we possibly know at that point if our interests will remain unchanged? But you can always switch majors, they deceitfully tell you--sure, from biochemistry to biology, not from biology to Persian studies and not from psychology to history and literature--at least not if you are hoping to graduate with your class...
DOUGLAS WALLER got interested in reporting on covert operations seven years ago when he covered the U.S. invasion of Panama and the Persian Gulf War. He quickly learned that ferreting out secrets calls for equal parts of patience and perseverance. It can take years to gain the trust of intelligence officers and months to verify the information they provide. Such was the case with this week's story about the CIA's efforts to block construction of an underground chemical-weapons plant in Libya. "This kind of story never gets dumped in your lap," says TIME's national-security correspondent...
...White Balloon" is the story of a seven-year-old child who, on the eve of the Persian New Year, sees a beautiful goldfish in a pet shop window. Fish are an elemental part of the Persian New Year celebration, which occurs on the first day of spring and lasts for thirteen days. The goldfish in the pet shop is expensive for the family's rather modest income. But with the help of her brother, the little girl, Razieh (Aida Mohammadkhani), convinces her mother to buy the fish for their New Year ceremony...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Iraq has rebuilt its military into a formidable, highly-skilled force that is now the foremost short-term threat in the Persian Gulf, the chief of the U.S. Central Command said Tuesday. General Binford Peay III appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee to request that the lawmakers not reduce U.S. military forces or decrease their overseas presence. Peay described Iraq's army as the most modernized and most powerful in the region, despite the fact that it has less than half the 51 divisions it had before the Persian Gulf War. "What we have in Iraq...