More News 12/20/02 - 12/27/02

• Reuters-Bush Receives Smallpox Vaccination

• IPS-[IRI] Agents In Kashmir Operating Under Pakistan's Sponsorship

• AFP-UN rights experts ready to probe inside Iran in 2003

• AP-[Yalda Celebration] Poetry and pistachios ...

• BBC-US army gears up for war

• The Economist-White knuckles

• Washington Post-Shades of 1980s Poland in Iran

• AFP-Iran's hardliners come under pressure from US, Khatami

• AJC.com-Iran Aspires To Democracy: Fort Stewart medic recalls childhood in Tehran

• FT-[IRI] to abolish death by stoning

• FT-Iran lets envoys see political prisoner