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There were also times Enron found a little government intervention came in handy. When India delayed approval of Enron's $3 billion power plant in Dabhol in 1996, Clinton White House counselor Mack McLarty instructed the U.S. ambassador in New Delhi to monitor it and gave regular progress reports to Enron chairman Ken Lay. (Four days before the project received its final O.K., Enron gave $100,000 to the Democratic National Committee.) And when Enron was trying to sell its interest in the Indian project, the New York Daily News reported, Vice President Dick Cheney raised the issue...
...convince the rest of his party to go along. In nine years, Manh helped transform the National Assembly from a rubber stamp into a reasonably representative legislature with televised sessions. "If he can do just half of what he accomplished in the National Assembly," says former U.S. Ambassador Douglas ("Pete") Peterson, "he can move Vietnam along the road of building a modern economy...
...jungle and mountain hideouts, the guerrillas have been ambushing troops and blowing up so many electricity pylons that some provinces are rationing electricity. Sabotage could hit Bogota itself, where the FARC has its urban "militia" in the slums at the capital's southern end. In Washington, the Colombian ambassador is lobbying for the U.S. to drop the Plan Colombia restriction that limits U.S. aid strictly to the drug-war campaign. The Colombians want U.S. training for a new mobile battalion that would protect the country's infrastructure...
When I took over the State Department's Intelligence Bureau in 1985, I told my staff to send me all important stuff but no cables from any embassy on the subject of Cyprus negotiations. As fate would have it, I left that position years later to become U.S. Ambassador to Turkey...
...Rock Steady," No Doubt's fifth album, finds the band impressively easing into its proper role as ambassador of a good time. "Hella Good," one of a number of tracks on the album produced by the accomplished Nellee Hooper (of late U2 and Bjork fame), sounds like an eighties roller-rink party. The good time flashbacks don't end there. "Don't Let Me Down," produced by Ric Ocasek, with its Cars-like bass line, spacey keyboards and layered vocals is the perfect melding of the best of what both the eighties and No Doubt have to offer...