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...never seen anybody who has the same enthusiasm for developing resources for Harvard," Clakins says. "He would hear about an Arabian sheik who had some remote connection to Harvard, and he would hop on the next plane there...
...reason pressure for the bill is likely to remain high is the ongoing trial in New York of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman. He and 11 others have been accused of plotting to blow up the U.N. and a federal office building, as well as a bridge and two tunnels that connect Manhattan to New Jersey. In the second week of the trial, one of Rahman's co-defendants unexpectedly changed his plea to guilty and claimed that the sheik had offered the approval of Islamic law for the terror campaign. If the Administration's bill had been in place...
...Sheik's Trial...
...terror-plot trial of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and 10 followers, jurors were shown dramatic videotapes that, the government maintains, recorded the defendants at work. Prosecutors said one clip showed a co-defendant taking a scouting drive through a major New York City tunnel to explore where to plant a bomb, and another recorded some of the defendants trying to build an explosive. Defense attorneys attacked the credibility of the government informer whose cooperation made the tapes possible...
...terror-conspiracy trial of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and 10 followers, federal prosecutors introduced transcripts of the taped conversations that are at the center of their case. In the transcripts the sheik is quoted as counseling against bombing the U.N. because it might be considered a "center of peace" and targeting instead "the American Army itself...