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...Washington last week, talks that would not have taken place without the agreement of Iran's security establishment. Iraq has responded to the potential threat by seeking improved ties with Iran. According to a report published on a website linked to the Islamic Iran Participation Front, Iran's leading reformist party, Saddam's son Qusai Hussein recently met with a deputy commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. The Foreign Ministry denied a meeting took place, but the report states that Qusai offered to swap members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq wanted by Iran for some of that country's Shahob...
Espinoza left Mexico City in 1994 after the assassination of reformist presidential candidate Luis D. Colosio, under whom Espinoza was director of private affairs...
...President and Congress appear to be zealously attacking corporate abuses the way Pilgrims would a dance hall. But get past the reformist posturing, and the proposed new laws add up to half-measures. They would restrict but not eliminate conflicts of interest among accounting firms and stock analysts. With Bush's support, both houses of Congress beat back an amendment that would require companies to deduct from their earnings the cost of stock options given to executives and other employees, as if they were cash or outright grants of stock. That measure was backed by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan...
...year theater career, Whitehead mounted premier productions of Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending (1957) and Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms (1952), along with the 1984 revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, which starred Dustin Hoffman and John Malkovich. DIED. DOBRI DZHUROV, 86, reformist communist general who participated in the coup that overthrew Bulgarian dictator Todor Zhivkov in 1989, bringing democracy to the former Soviet satellite; in Sofia. Dzhurov was Bulgarian Defense Minister for 28 years before becoming a lawmaker in 1990. DIED. J. CARTER BROWN, 67, former director of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts...
...sure I was a reformist though,” he chuckles...