Word: rawalpindi
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...Pakistan. It is indeed gracious of TIME to give information for making donations for the Afghan drought victims at the end of the article. But would someone with a conscience please ask Uncle Sam to stop the onslaught of reprisals against just one man, Osama bin Laden? RIAZ JAFRI Rawalpindi, Pakistan...
...clientele of sheiks and kinglets and potentates and ailing tycoons and celebrities--Billy Graham was on the premises the day I went, having his medications adjusted--but it's a clinic that also serves a big swath of southern Minnesota, so when the Exalted Nawab of Lower Rawalpindi's 14th and 15th wives go in for a chest X ray, they sit and wait next to Ole and Lena from Spring Grove. And sitting and waiting is part of the Mayo experience. You tell all your interesting troubles to the examining physician, and he or she routes...
...satellite photos showed that the layout of the plant in the Rawalpindi suburbs was similar to an M-11 rocket facility in Hubei province in central China. Reports from agents on the ground, along with telephone intercepts, revealed that about a dozen engineers from the China Precision Machinery Import-Export Corp. have visited the Rawalpindi site. The state-run corporation, based in Beijing, is in charge of marketing missiles like the M-11 overseas. The CIA also spotted crates containing what it believed were machine tools for building rocket motors being shipped by the Chinese corporation to the plant...
...last October, the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies had agreed on a "Statement of Fact," a top-secret document that concluded China was helping Pakistan build the Rawalpindi plant and that warned the facility could be producing key parts of the rocket within two years. The White House and State Department, however, have treated the report like a barrel of radioactive waste, refusing to schedule interagency meetings during the past seven months, even to discuss whether China should be penalized...
...delivers the smoking gun, such as photos of M-11s out of their canisters or being rolled off the assembly line. That may be a difficult standard to meet. CIA officials suspect that Pakistan knows when agency satellites pass over and is careful to keep activities at Rawalpindi and Sargodha under wraps during those times. Thus the proof the Administration wants may not come until it's too late--when the missiles are actually used...