Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hollywood, as in war, truth is often the first casualty. Stories told onscreen demand heroes, villains and an intelligible plot line. Real life, on the other hand, tends to get messy -- the lines between good and bad often cross. Two years ago, director Oliver Stone was excoriated in the press for playing fast and loose with certain facts in JFK. Jim Sheridan's In the Name of the Father has largely escaped such criticism in the U.S., but only because Americans are unfamiliar with the story it is based on. In Britain, where people have lived with the case...
...these numbers led to apartments in Istanbul linked to a certain Mesut Edipsoy. An Iranian-born Turk, Edipsoy had rented one of the flats for two Iranians suspected of involvement in the plot and allowed them to use his own apartment as well. According to the prosecutor's report, the Iranians requested that Edipsoy procure the falsified Turkish passports that the killers used...
...diplomatic interest is understandable: one of the most direct links between the plot and the Iranian government is the order of mission dispatching Sarhadi to Switzerland. The one-page typed document was issued on the authority of Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati. The original of this letter, dated July 16, 1991, will be a key piece of evidence at the trial...
...checking the passenger list against hotel registries and police records, investigators eventually identified 13 individuals believed to have taken part in the plot. All of them came to Switzerland on brand-new government-service passports, many issued in Tehran on the same date. Most listed the same personal address, Karim-Khan 40, which turns out to be an intelligence- ministry building. All 13 arrived on Iran Air flights, using tickets issued on the same date and numbered sequentially. Switzerland issued international arrest warrants for them on June...
...whole thing, the First Lady insisted, was a Republican plot to discredit her. That easy defense will not provide much comfort for long. Several polls last week showed that most people agreed with Hillary that the Republicans were playing partisan games. But the public also didn't like what little it knew about Whitewater, and was not prepared to grant Hillary the automatic benefit of the doubt she seemed to expect. "She's still in the mode of saying, 'I didn't do anything wrong,' " said a White House source. "So why should she do a mea culpa?" Said...