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Sunday, December 29, 1996

Headlines:

-- Iraqi POWs freed
-- In today's Hamshahri
-- What is I-r-a-N-e-t?
-- Iran's "ambitions stir unease"
-- Apple-NeXT merger

Iran Frees 724 Iraqi POWs

Saturday, December 28, 1996

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran released 724 Iraqi prisoners of war today to mark Islamic and Christian holidays...

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//wp1.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19961228/V000957-122896-idx.html

Also see the story (in Persian) in Hamshahri:

//www.neda.net/hamshahri/751009/siasi48.htm

NOTE: You need Persian fonts to see the news in Persian. If you have not installed it, go to these sites for free download and installation instructions:

//www.neda.net/hamshahri

or:

//www.payvand.com/persian

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Stories in today's Hamshahri (in Persian):

-- One view on the need for political parties:

//www.neda.net/hamshahri/751009/maqal7.htm

-- Iran, Turkey and Turkmenistan discuss gas exports:

//www.neda.net/hamshahri/751009/eqtes20.htm

-- Central Bank says economy to grow 5 percent:

//www.neda.net/hamshahri/751009/eqtes64.htm

-- "Bijan & Manijeh" musical piece performed in Switzerland:

//www.neda.net/hamshahri/751009/adabh16.htm

-- Tehran, home to 10 million plus, has never had a sewage network. It will:

//www.neda.net/hamshahri/751009/eqtes39.htm

-- Psychiatric patients aren't nuts!

//www.neda.net/hamshahri/751009/ejtem17.htm

-- When are we going to learn to drive?

//www.neda.net/hamshahri/751009/shahr66.htm

-- Opium hidden in man's stomach:

//www.neda.net/hamshahri/751009/havad33.htm

NOTE: You need Persian fonts to see the news in Persian. If you have not installed it, go to these sites for free download and installation instructions:

//www.neda.net/hamshahri

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//www.payvand.com/persian

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From: Karim Ardalan <karim@misinc.net>

Here is more on the AOL issue....looks like AOL gave up! Now people can see THE IRANIAN and other Web sites previously locked on America Online.

If you want to read more about it, go to:

//www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,6532,00.html?dtn.head

Take care

Karim

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A quote from the "IraNet" Website:

"What is I-r-a-N-e-t ? Really! We all know a tiny bit about the nature of mankind!...In the last few months so many issues have been discussed among IraNet members. Therefore, to jump into judging it prior to knowing us is the indication of hastiness. To compare it to those of us who would judge you hastily, are usually out of doing it hatefully. IraNet has more than 10 parts and divided into 6 regions. It takes at least 2-3 month to receive all parts of IraNet and to understand it fully. Regional offices and advertisers along with members, all will help you to understand it fully, so you will be an expert for any other newcomer..."

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To take a look at IraNet, go to:

//ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/bjTamasi/

IraNet is promsing email in color and 24-hour news in the near future using NetCard and Personal Publisher II from America Online.

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From: Reza F. Bourghani <davood@ix.netcom.com>

IRAN'S GULF AMBITIONS STIR UNEASE IN THE U.S. RECENT WAR GAMES UNDERSCORE ANXIETY

Terry Atlas, Washington Bureau. Chicago Tribune 12/26/96

The year is 2010, and Iran, after years of demands that U.S. forces leave the Persian Gulf region, sends its Russian-built submarines to mine the Strait of Hormuz, cutting off a fifth of the world's oil supplies.

At the same time, Iranian armored forces start rolling through southern Iraq into Kuwait, toward the vital Saudi oil fields. Iranian marines launch an amphibious assault across the gulf into the poorly defended Arab emirates, while a shower of Iranian Scud missiles prevent the U.S. from using military bases in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

The U.S. counterattacks, but Iranians don't collapse in the face of American military power as Iraqis did in 1991.

"This is not Gulf War II, Desert Storm revisited," said Air Force Col. Parks Schaefer, who designed the scenario for the recent Strategic Force '96 war game at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.

The 2010 scenario, although fiction, is based on what military planners say are realistic assumptions about future Iranian capabilities, improved missile technologies, expanded sea-warfare systems, access to satellite-based guidance systems and a chemical-biological weapons capability that severely limits U.S. military options.

Moreover, there is nothing imaginary about the concerns raised by Iran's determined military buildup.

"We will be challenged over time by a hegemonistic Iran, which will seek to dominate the region," says a recent Defense Intelligence Agency report.

Even as the spotlight remains on keeping Iraq's Saddam Hussein boxed in, the Pentagon's more difficult challenge is Iran, which by most accounts presents the more serious long-term threat to U.S. interests in the region.

"We have made it clear to the countries in the region who are threatened by Iran that the United States is firmly on their side against any efforts by Iran to threaten them or to exercise greater dominance in the region," Secretary of State Warren Christopher said earlier this month...

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To read full text, do a search at:

//www.chicago.tribune.com

BY THE WAY

James Defence Weakly's report: "Iran's new secret weapon"

//iranian.com/Dec96/Features/Weapon/Weapon.html

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What's NeXT for Apple?

Abandoned Mac Users Deal Ditches Flagship System

By James Coates TRIBUNE COMPUTER WRITER Friday, December 27, 1996

In a move that some analysts have likened to Ford Motor Co. suddenly announcing that it wants to make Chevrolets, Apple Computer Inc. is spending the Christmas season outlining a stunning new business scheme to worried customers and Wall Street.

After a dozen years, Apple is shelving its flagship Macintosh personal computer for a strikingly different system, called NeXT.

The familiar Macintosh system of folders displayed on a desktop known the world over for its ease of use and point-and-click features will be replaced with an elegant new look of elaborate, animated NeXT icons and screens noted for their dazzling graphical displays.

But though the new operating software may save Apple, it may condemn millions of Macintosh computers now in homes, schools and businesses. That's because existing Mac software will not work with the new operating system.

The switchover thus leaves Macintosh owners in somewhat the same pickle as people who bought Beta videocassette recorders when VHS became ascendant, rendering their machines obsolete.

Apple quickly assured customers that support for existing Macs will continue in a robust fashion for some time, and company leaders said they expect people will continue to use existing Macs well beyond the turn of the century....

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To see full text, go to:

//www.chicago.tribune.com/news/apple/apple.htm

NOTE: This link may have moved. If so, search it at:

//www.chicago.tribune.com

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