Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sometimes not-so-old, job seekers is the frequent necessity of begging for work from people about the age of their children. "Most of the human-resources people are in their late 20s," says Dan McMenamin, 44, a long-range planner ousted when Zion Nuclear Power Plant in Illinois closed...
There were holes as well in the Administration's evidence against Sudan's el-Shifa Pharmaceutical Industries plant, which cruise missiles flattened in the Aug. 20 retaliatory attack. The White House had to dial back earlier claims that the plant produced only chemical-weapons precursors and that bin Laden had financed its operation. It turns out that el-Shifa manufactured much of the antibiotics, malaria and tuberculosis drugs sold in Sudan. And the CIA had evidence only that bin Laden had put money into Sudan's military industry, not the plant specifically...
Clinton aides still believe the plant also produced dangerous chemicals. CIA agents scooped up soil samples there that contained traces of a compound called EMPTA, which is used to make the VX nerve agent. Iraqi chemical-weapons scientists had been regular visitors to the plant. A U.S. intelligence report also alleged that one of the plant's senior officials lived in a house owned by bin Laden...
...Sudan with a double whammy late Monday -- not more missiles, but a couple of withering charges about that Shifa Pharmaceuticals plant in northern Khartoum. Not only do intelligence sources claim possession of a "soil sample" containing EMPTA, an ingredient in VX nerve gas, but they also insist the factory was a chemical weapons bazaar -- primed to produce VX for Baghdad as well as Bin Laden. Nonsense, say the Sudanese: Soil samples from outside the plant are no indication of what's going on within, and taking samples from inside the plant would require a power drill. Futhermore, Sudan alleges, their...
...Curiously, the intelligence leaks came as the Security Council put off a decision on whether to send U.N. inspectors to the plant. "I don't see what the purpose of a fact-finding study would be," said U.S. representative Peter Burleigh. "We already have credible information that fully justifies the strike." And as if by magic, that information appeared all over Tuesday's media. But the story creates more queries than it answers -- such as, why didn't the U.S. strike at a second Sudanese factory where it says Iraqi nerve gas scientists were working? And won't there still...