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...FRANCE DUCKING ITS MILITARY RESPONSIBILITIES TO ITS OLDEST ALLY? France is not a pacifist country. We currently have more troops in the Balkans than the Americans. France is obviously not anti-American. It's a true friend of the United States and always has been. It is not France's role to support dictatorial regimes in Iraq or anywhere else. Nor do we have any differences over the goal of eliminating Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. For that matter, if Saddam Hussein would only vanish, it would without a doubt be the biggest favor he could...
Even for a firm that's in the business of creating headlines, this one is special: British-based Reuters today announced that its board had agreed, after weeks of negotiations, to a $17.2 billion takeover bid from Canadian information provider Thomson. Assuming anti-trust regulators in the E.U., U.S. and U.K. sign off, the deal will forge the world's largest business news and information provider. Thomson-Reuters, as that merged business is to be known, will be led by current Reuters CEO Tom Glocer...
...evenly matched, they may enter a kind of Cold War, with neither company able to dominate the other. If today's deal is sure to draw regulators' attention, for example, any play by Bloomberg to pick up additional market share via acquisition would likely draw even closer anti-trust scrutiny...
...voters in his own campaign for president. But Falwell cooled on Carter and within a year or two of his election turned hostile. In 1979, he started the Moral Majority, partly at the urging of two Republican political consultants. In 1980, Falwell moved the organization behind Ronald Reagan, buying anti-Carter ads on tiny radio stations across the South and Midwest...
...Still, hundreds of opposition supporters defied all warnings and appeared on the streets, dancing and chanting anti-government slogans. As they proceeded towards the airport, they were fired on from bridges and rooftops. Within an hour, Karachi resembled Baghdad, as dozens lay dead and injured on the city's streets, gunmen preventing ambulances from reaching the wounded...