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FURTHERMORE FROM NEWS SERVICES Wednesday, January 14, 1998 ; Page D02 Section: Sports 439 words; 1 of 24 Article ID: 9801290192 COURTS: Wagner College junior center Frantz Pierre-Louis was charged yesterday with the rape of a fellow student two weeks ago, New York City police said. Click for complete article A LOW PROFILE FOR CIA CHIEF; BEHIND THE SCENES, TENET GAINS GROWING RESPECT WALTER PINCUS WASHINGTON POST STAFF WRITER Tuesday, January 13, 1998 ; Page A13 Section: A Section 1792 words; 2 of 24 Article ID: 9801280049 Five months after he was confirmed as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, George J. Tenet has not become a household name. It's another sign of his success, colleagues say. Click for complete article TURKEY ARRESTS 1,300 ILLEGAL MIGRANTS COMPILED FROM NEWS SERVICES Monday, January 12, 1998 ; Page A13 Section: A Section 161 words; 3 of 24 Article ID: 9801270112 Police arrested more than 1,300 people in a stepped-up effort to stem the flow of illegal migrants through Turkey to Western Europe, a police officer said. Click for complete article WOMEN'S FURY TOWARD TALIBAN STALLS PIPELINE; AFGHAN PLAN SNAGGED IN U.S. POLITICAL ISSUES DAN MORGAN; DAVID B. OTTAWAY WASHINGTON POST STAFF WRITERS Sunday, January 11, 1998 ; Page A01 Section: A Section 1415 words; 4 of 24 Article ID: 9801260152 In early December, four bearded and turbaned Afghan clerics dressed in traditional baggy pants stepped from a helicopter onto an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico operated by Unocal Corp., a huge, California-based global energy company. Click for complete article U.S. PROPOSED DIRECT TALKS IN OVERTURE TO IRAN; LETTER, DELIVERED BY SWISS ENVOY, FOLLOWED KHATEMI INAUGURATION BARTON GELLMAN WASHINGTON POST STAFF WRITER Friday, January 9, 1998 ; Page A01 Section: A Section 801 words; 5 of 24 Article ID: 9801260349 The Clinton administration recently proposed direct, face-to-face talks to the government of Iran, conveying the overture in writing by way of a sensitive diplomatic channel reserved previously for pointed warnings and threats, according to knowledgeable officials. Click for complete article BUSY ARE THE PEACEMAKERS NORA BOUSTANY WASHINGTON POST FOREIGN SERVICE Friday, January 9, 1998 ; Page A27 Section: A Section 970 words; 6 of 24 Article ID: 9801260333 Despite all the grand diplomatic posturing on the world stage and the televised smoke signals often sent across oceans, when it comes to real interests, declared antagonists sometimes will not only sit at the same table but may also sing from the same sheet of music. Click for complete article LEGAL FEES PAID IN CACHET; FOR A CHANCE TO DEFEND POLITICOS, ATTORNEYS ARE EAGER TO CUT RATES DAVID SEGAL WASHINGTON POST STAFF WRITER Friday, January 9, 1998 ; Page D01 Section: Style 1185 words; 7 of 24 Article ID: 9801260282 Having been probed, sued and investigated, President Clinton is scrambling for ways to pay his legal fees, now at $2.9 million and mounting. If only he were just another Washington player in distress. Click for complete article HELD HOSTAGE IN TEHRAN Friday, January 9, 1998 ; Page A20 Section: OP-ED 235 words; 8 of 24 Article ID: 9801260255 I do not pretend to speak for them, but I would guess that most of my 52 colleagues held hostage with me in Tehran would welcome -- as most assuredly would I -- an American dialogue with Iran of the kind spoken of in The Post's editorial of Dec. 16. But to equate, as the editorial seems to do, the CIA intervention in 1953 (not 1954) to help restore the shah to his throne with the seizure of our embassy and the holding of its entire staff hostage for 444 days is grossly out of line. Click for complete article THE TV COLUMN JOHN CARMODY WASHINGTON POST STAFF WRITER Friday, January 9, 1998 ; Page D04 Section: Style 1682 words; 9 of 24 Article ID: 9801260288 The litigation mounts over the so-called "JFK papers," which allege all kinds of sinister ties among President Kennedy, his putative lover, Marilyn Monroe, and the Mafia. The documents sparked a federal grand jury investigation after ABC News branded them forgeries last September . . . Click for complete article JANET CLARE PITCHERSKY; SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER Friday, January 9, 1998 ; Page B06 Section: Metro 410 words; 10 of 24 Article ID: 9801250155 Janet Clare Pitchersky, 63, who was a Montgomery County special education teacher for the last 20 years, died of ovarian cancer Jan. 6 at Suburban Hospital. Click for complete article PUMP PRICES DROP, BUT OIL PROFITS TANK; WARM WEATHER, ASIAN CRISIS ARE LIKELY TO HURT EARNINGS MARTHA M. HAMILTON WASHINGTON POST STAFF WRITER Friday, January 9, 1998 ; Page G01 Section: Financial 942 words; 11 of 24 Article ID: 9801260275 Oil prices have fallen to the lowest level in more than two years, and in some regions of the country gasoline is now selling for less than $1 a gallon. Click for complete article IRANIAN LEADER URGES EXCHANGES WITH U.S.; KHATEMI EXPRESSES REGRET FOR 1979 HOSTAGE-TAKING, SUGGESTS NEGOTIATIONS BARTON GELLMAN WASHINGTON POST STAFF WRITER Thursday, January 8, 1998 ; Page A01 Section: A Section 1073 words; 12 of 24 Article ID: 9801230069 Iranian President Mohammed Khatemi called last night for wide-ranging unofficial exchanges to break down the "bulky wall of mistrust between us and the U.S. administration," implying for the first time that an informal dialogue could lead to resumption of U.S.-Iranian diplomatic ties. Click for complete article NEW QUESTIONS ABOUT OLD ISSUES; OFFICIALS NOW FOCUS ON PREVENTING RECURRENCE OF IRANIAN TERRORISM R. JEFFREY SMITH WASHINGTON POST STAFF WRITER Thursday, January 8, 1998 ; Page A28 Section: A Section 960 words; 13 of 24 Article ID: 9801230070 In September 1993, Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini instructed his senior foreign affairs officials that their "first duty" was to cooperate with intelligence officers working to undermine secular and Western influence in the region and export a fundamentalist Islamic revolution. Click for complete article HAMMERING AT RUSSIA JIM HOAGLAND Thursday, January 8, 1998 ; Page A21 Section: OP-ED 730 words; 14 of 24 Article ID: 9801230041 "Human proliferation" from the arms industries of Russia and Ukraine is rapidly becoming an important new irritant in U.S. relations with those two countries and a growing threat to global security. As this becomes clearer, so does the inadequacy of traditional diplomacy and arms control to deal with this new situation. Click for complete article FOR THE RECORD Thursday, January 8, 1998 ; Page A20 Section: OP-ED 304 words; 15 of 24 Article ID: 9801230036 From a news briefing yesterday by State Department spokesman Jamie Rubin: Click for complete article U.S., ISRAEL, TURKS IN DISPUTED NAVAL DRILL COMPILED FROM NEWS SERVICES Thursday, January 8, 1998 ; Page A24 Section: A Section 118 words; 16 of 24 Article ID: 9801230165 Israeli and Turkish warships accompanied by a U.S. destroyer launched a search-and-rescue exercise that irate Arab states and Iran branded ominous and aggressive. Click for complete article THE RELIABLE SOURCE ANN GERHART; ANNIE GROER Tuesday, January 6, 1998 ; Page B03 Section: Style 775 words; 17 of 24 Article ID: 0000006037 Richard Helms, From Spycraft to Wordcraft Click for complete article SIERRA LEONE OFFICIALS FIRED FOR LOOTING EMBASSY COMPILED FROM NEWS SERVICES Monday, January 5, 1998 ; Page A13 Section: A Section 159 words; 18 of 24 Article ID: 0000005115 The ruling military junta has dismissed six of its members for their role in the looting of the Iranian Embassy here in the capital city last week, a military statement announced. Click for complete article O, CRYSTAL BALL JIM HOAGLAND Sunday, January 4, 1998 ; Page C07 Section: OP-ED 754 words; 19 of 24 Article ID: 0000004105 'Tis the season for split vision and steady nerves: Keep one eye fixed on the rearview mirror and the year that was while you gaze into the crystal ball for 1998. And fasten your seat belt as another year on the roller coaster of change in world affairs begins. Click for complete article TOP IRANIAN CLERIC CRITICAL OF U.S. COMPLIED FROM NEWS SERVICES Saturday, January 3, 1998 ; Page A16 Section: A Section 167 words; 20 of 24 Article ID: 0000003117 Iran's spiritual leader renewed harsh attacks on the United States, saying Washington is intent on destabilizing the Islamic republic. Click for complete article WRESTLING NOTEBOOK GREG BRICE Saturday, January 3, 1998 ; Page V08 Section: Prince William Extra 1028 words; 21 of 24 Article ID: 0000003037 With `Nothing' to Lose, Massjouni Just Wins Click for complete article OBITUARIES ASSOCIATED PRESS Saturday, January 3, 1998 ; Page B04 Section: Metro 929 words; 22 of 24 Article ID: 0000003135 FRANCES M. JENKINS MANN Click for complete article POPULATION TIDAL WAVE Saturday, January 3, 1998 ; Page A17 Section: A Section 426 words; 23 of 24 Article ID: 0000003036 Youths younger than 15 make up more than one-third of the population in 74 countries. These nations -- all developing countries -- are on course to double their population in 30 years or less. This growth momentum continues because the population base in the Third World already is huge -- despite the fact that death rates are up in many Third World countries and fertility rates have decreased almost everywhere. Click for complete article IRANIAN PRESIDENT SENDS MESSAGE TO SADDAM COMPILED FROM NEWS SERVICES Thursday, January 1, 1998 ; Page A20 Section: A Section 156 words; 24 of 24 Article ID: 0000001111 Iranian President Mohammed Khatemi sent a congratulatory message to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, the first such gesture in 17 years, to mark the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the Iraqi news agency INA said yesterday. Click for complete article