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Shadow Over Lockerbie
"On December 21, 1988, 270 people died in the worst-ever act of air terrorism against the U.S. - the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Eleven years later, two alleged members of the Libyan Intelligence Service are scheduled to face trial starting in February, 2000. Relatives of the victims sway they're pleased that the Lockerbie case will finally get a thorough hearing in a court room. Many are convinced of the Libyan's guilt. Others are skeptical."
Tags: CASSETTE TAPE; radio; terrorism; airline; bomb; FBI; Syria; Iran; Libya.
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Turkey's War on the Kurds
At 25 million, the Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without their own state. With a similar language, religion, and culture, the Kurds have lived for thousands of years in an area that is now part of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria and the former Soviet Union. The civil strife in Turkey has received comparatively little coverage in the U.S. media. It is almost as though there are two sets of Kurds - the Kurds in Iraq, who seem to be viewed as the "good" Kurds because they oppose Saddam, and the Kurds in Turkey, who are "bad" because they oppose a U.S. ally. It doesn't seem to matter that there are four times as many Kurds in Turkey, or that both populations have suffered repression from their respective governments.
Tags: Kurds; civil war; Turkey; Iraq; Middle East
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Passing the Buck Dept.: The Supernote
New Yorker magazine reports that "A near-perfect counterfeit hundred-dollar bill is coming out of the Middle East. Is it an act of economic terrorism? And can the Treasury stop it? ... (The Supernote) had surfaced around 1990.. and, as far as (Secret Service) agents could determine between two and three billion dollars' worth had been printed in two years..."
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No title (id: 8671)
Time magazine raises new questions regarding the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which weakens the Bush administration's case against Libya and refocuses attention on Syria, Iran and Ahmed Jibril of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
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No title (id: 8204)
CNN Special Assignment (Atlanta) reports on the shipment of long-range Scud-C missiles to Syria by North Korea, which are capable of striking any point within Israel; also finds that Iran and Libya are being supplied with the missiles and that Iran is in the process of a large arms buildup, March 1991.
Tags: TAPE
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Wars in the 1990s: Growing Firepower in the Third World.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists tracks the proliferation of weapons in Third World countries; there is a growing risk that military encounters among these nations could cause massive destruction and escalate into nuclear war, May 1990.
Tags: Israel Libya North Korea Pakistan Saudi Arabia South Africa South Korea Syria Taiwan Turkey
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The growing menace of chemical weapons
Reader's Digest reports on the growing chemical weapons arsenals of Third World countries, particularly Iraq, Iran, Syria and Libya.
Tags: chemical weapons; third world countries; chemical warfare