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...smaller and weigh about two-thirds less than conventional cigarettes, so they may appear to be less substantial and therefore less noxious. But the dark Indian tobacco they contain has as much as three times the nicotine concentration of American grown. The leaf wrapping, which comes from the tendu plant, doesn't help either. Unlike the paper on a conventional cigarette, the tendu leaf is nonporous, so it prevents outside air from mixing with the inhaled smoke and diluting...
...missing, Iraqi officials quickly led them to another veterinary complex, where it was located. At al-Muthanna, the chemical base, the U.N. team unearthed some dusty shells filled with mustard gas, but they had been previously tagged and sealed in past inspections. Only at the Karama missile-design plant in northern Baghdad did the inspectors discover a small violation: several pieces of suspect equipment were missing. Iraq made sure worldwide television crews recorded it all: how punctiliously the regime complied with the U.N. crew, how empty-handed the inspectors came away...
...Kuchma's resignation. Bland, uncritical television news programs - the main information source for most Ukrainians - fail to give coverage to the protesters or to spell out their demands. And for appearances on talk-show programs, correspondents are told what to say hours in advance. Kuchma, a former missile-plant director who won the presidency in 1994, may well have total control of the media, but events both in- and outside Ukraine are beginning to elude his grasp. Kuchma's administration is suspected by the U.S. of indirectly selling sophisticated Kolchuga radar systems to Iraq in violation of U.N. sanctions; opposition...
...nuclear bombs. When Washington's only response was a stern rebuke and the cutting off of all food and energy aid from the U.S. and its allies to the starving communist nation, North Korea upped the stakes: This week Pyongyang announced that it planned to restart a nuclear power plant closed down under the 1994 agreement because it was producing weapons-grade plutonium. Although they said the move was necessitated by the cutoff of fuel supplies, the North Koreans' implied threat was underscored when they demanded that the International Atomic Energy Agency withdraw monitoring equipment from the plant used...
Only one reporter discovered that the manager of the plant was living in bin Laden’s old house...