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Clark wrote that June will be an appropriate moment to turn over the reins, as he will be able to provide his successor “with an enormous head start...
...charges of complicity in chemical-weapons attacks on Kurds in the late 1980s. General Nizar al-Khazraji, who has lived in Denmark since 1999, was accused of participating in Operation Anfal, which included a 1988 gas attack on Halabja that killed 5,000 Kurdish civilians. Khazraji, a possible successor to Saddam Hussein, said Iraqi secret police had made up the claims to stop him from organizing a dissident movement. KUWAIT In the Firing Line A Kuwaiti policeman, Khalid Messier al-Shimmari, was arrested in Saudi Arabia for shooting and seriously wounding two U.S. soldiers near Kuwait City. The attack followed...
...said that it was too early to evaluate fully the impact of perestroika. But he said reforms under his successor, Boris Yeltsin, that moved the country further toward a market economy came with “too high a price”—rampant poverty...
...need to be done in a weightless environment. The program is meant to drum up interest for the agency’s research among young people born after the space shuttle started flying in the early 1980s. NASA also announced this September the design it has chosen for the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. The instrument, called the Next Generation Space Telescope, will likely be located at a special point in space nearly a million miles from earth where the gravity of the earth and the sun counteract each other to keep the telescope in stable position. Such...
...mammoth reorganization to refocus its mission on counterterrorism. In June, a mere 10 months after Bush and his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, chose retired General Wayne Downing to head counterterrorism operations at the National Security Council, Downing abruptly resigned, frustrated by his lack of power. His successor, retired Air Force General John Gordon--a former deputy director of the CIA--gets higher marks from insiders, though some complain that the Counter-Terrorism Security Group, of which he is chairman, is "too bulky." Meetings of Gordon's committee sometimes have representatives from 15 agencies, among them minor players. If there...