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...older women, like older men, money is a plus when it comes to attracting the opposite sex." Except for weekly dinners with her two daughters, entertainment means magazine business. Parties are held at her Southampton beachfront mansion or cavernous Fifth Avenue apartment with its giant de Koonings, vast Persian rugs and a paralyzing view of Central Park. The service is formal but the tone relaxed. At a recent dinner for potential advertisers, Georgette Mosbacher, flame-haired CEO of La Prairie skin-care company and wife of the Secretary of Commerce, griped acidly about "the hatchet job" the Washington Post magazine...
Although he did not name names, Rafsanjani said some of those detained were Iranian navy personnel who aided the U.S. when it was patrolling the Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq war. He cited an incident in September 1987, when U.S. forces attacked and boarded the Iran Ajr as the ship was laying mines...
Although the Navy refuses to comment on the nature of the dolphins' tasks, private sources claim the dolphins defend moored nuclear submarines by identifying and killing saboteur-divers. Others are reportedly trained to locate mines (one dolphin died during recent naval operations in the Persian Gulf). Apparently, the CIA has even approached former trainers from the hit 1960s TV show, "Flipper," asking them to train dolphins to place explosives on ships...
Even if the Arctic Refuge is developed, the U.S. will remain in the position of a hungry consumer with a relatively small larder. The Persian Gulf now holds two-thirds of the world's proven oil reserves. The U.S. share is less than 3%, while its annual consumption has reached nearly 30% of worldwide usage. Those sobering figures are reason enough for the U.S. to avoid gas- gulping habits that would bring on another painful awakening...
...Shards of metal had pierced its roof, barely missing her head. The significance of the bomb, which may have been triggered by remote control, almost certainly lay with Captain Rogers. He is commander of the U.S.S. Vincennes, the guided-missile cruiser that shot down an Iranian airliner over the Persian Gulf last July 3, killing all 290 people aboard. Rogers gave the order to fire missiles at the plane in the mistaken belief that it was an Iranian jet fighter attacking his ship...