Word: confirmed
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Iraq came under widespread criticism last year after it killed hundreds and perhaps thousands of Kurdish villagers with a chemical-weapons attack in the gulf war. Now U.S. officials confirm that Baghdad has been developing yet another form of warfare expressly banned by international law: biological weapons...
...sparked a full- scale media blitz, and he was featured in news reports worldwide. But the daily Izvestia sensed a hoax and found holes in Akopyan's account; none of the other five "survivors," for example, could be found. At week's end TASS confessed it was unable "to confirm with full certainty the authenticity of the story...
These sources say the satellite, named Lacrosse, can form radar images of key Soviet military sites. US intelligence officials could use the information to confirm Soviet compliance with arms control treaties and to help guide the new B2 stealth bomber...
...fight against racial discrimination. The greatest civil rights leader this country has ever seen, Dr. Martin Luther King, would surely not have seen his cause as a conservative one. The fact that the fight against sex discrimination in the final clubs is one espoused by liberals should practically confirm its validity a civil rights cause...
...Shaocheng of the ministry's emergency rescue office said he could only confirm state-run radio's earlier report that more than 600 people were killed...