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Just in the past year CIA information helped: the French government prevent the shipment of missile-related graphite cylinders to Pakistan; the Germans to interdict a shipment of Scud-missile production equipment being transferred to Syria; Italian authorities to block the delivery of excavation equipment en route to Libya for possible use in construction of an underground chemical- weapons plant; and the Swiss to stop the sale of equipment ordered by a nuclear-related Pakistani company...
...institution committed to the organizational principle of "every tub on its own bottom," Lowell's interdict against seeking donors was a terrible omen, one that would re-emerge some six decades later when the museum's director, professor of archaeology Lawrence Stager, would not raise money himself and barred others from doing so besides. But this jumps ahead of the story...
...Filipinos ready for combat, and the War Department began in the summer of 1941 to ship him the first of a promised 128 new B-17 Flying Fortresses. By April 1942, said Marshall, that would represent "the greatest concentration of heavy-bomber strength anywhere in the world," able to interdict any Japanese assault on Southeast Asia and mount "incendiary attacks to burn up the wood and paper structures of the densely populated Japanese cities...
Investigators have evidence that First American, the largest bank in the Washington area (1990 assets: $11 billion), has for years been secretly controlled by a criminally tainted, money-laundering, Luxembourg-based global bank. That evidence last week prompted the Federal Reserve to interdict all transfer of money and assets between the two banks. The regulators asked the Justice Department, which has appeared reluctant to pursue allegations, to begin a criminal and civil investigation. The Fed was responding to pressure generated by Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau, who is presenting evidence of fraud, money laundering and disguised ownership...
...tactical doctrine that would take over then is called Air-Land by Pentagon planners. As described by American commanders in Saudi Arabia, it would go like this: first the Air Force, while continuing to interdict supply lines, would switch to direct bombing and strafing of Iraqi troops, possibly including carpet bombing by B-52s based in Saudi Arabia and the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia to clear out Iraqi minefields. American artillery firing Copperhead shells, which use a laser-guided homing device, and multiple-rocket launchers would subject Saddam's troops to a murderous hail of ground fire. Missile...