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...with contributor Dwayne Andreas, the chairman of agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland. Andreas, along with his company and members of his clan, has provided more than $475,000 for Dole's operations since 1979. Dole has proudly called himself "Senator Ethanol" in honor of the corn-based fuel that ADM produces and that Dole has long protected with tax subsidies. But Dole has also played a crucial role in making the sweetener market profitable for ADM by championing the sugar price-support program. ADM is the world's largest producer of high-fructose corn syrup, a sugar substitute; the higher...
TAKING AIM AT ADM...
...take on a new task in Bosnia this week as peacekeepers will provide security for U.N. war crimes investigators. NATO's commander in Bosnia does not expect any major confrontations during the search for mass graves and other atrocities near Srebrenica, in eastern Bosnia. 'There may be some demonstrations," Adm. Leighton Smith said. "This obviously is a very emotional issue. But I don't anticipate that there will be problems" for the American troops. The investigators will begin examining graves on Tuesday for planned excavation. Reports that thousands of Bosnian Muslims were slaughtered by Bosnian Serbs near Srebrenica helped trigger...
When you add the $275,000 ADM gave to the Dole Foundation, the senator's charity, and the $500,000 it gave to the Red Cross when Elizabeth Dole became its president, you're talking about some serious money. Shell games like these allow politicians to raise huge sums without appearing corrupt--over the course of his long career, Dole has received over $47 million in donations...
...giant-corporate agenda has become the sole agenda. Even the Public Broadcasting System has been purged of temperate Robert MacNeil, reducing its NewsHour to Republican softball pitcher Jim Lehrer--a guaranteed development now that every program begins with "Thanks" to Exxon or "Thanks" to AT&T or "Thanks" to ADM. You don't bite the hand that feeds...