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WOULD YOU PAY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR SOMETHING YOU don't need, don't want and won't use? If you're an American taxpayer, you may have no choice. Israel has staged a successful rocket launch with its ARROW anti-tactical missile system, a feat that will help bolster arguments that U.S. funding of the Israeli / project should continue. To strengthen Israel's security, the U.S. has spent $126 million on the Arrow and plans to pick up two-thirds of the projected $322 million in future development costs. The U.S. has no plans to purchase the system...
...AIPAC's goals has been loan guarantees to Israel to bolster stability, he said...
...says Hoffenberg, a self-styled "nice guy from Brooklyn," who explains that his troubles were merely "technical violations." In any case, he wants to make the Post a going business. He has already made good on his promise to reinstate half of Kalikow's salary cuts and hopes to bolster the bottom line by using his 1,000-member sales force as advertising salespeople. He won't interfere in editorial matters, he insists. "The creative side, that's not my job. I have enough to do on the publishing side," although he wants to write a weekly column "to promote...
...reports, Iran has contributed $30 million this year. P.L.O. activists complain that Saudi Arabia and Qatar are also providing funds, and Israeli officials have even tracked funds from Muslim groups in the U.S. and Britain. Hamas can finance social institutions such as schools, medical clinics, charities and mosques that bolster its strength among the less religious. The P.L.O. still outspends Hamas in the territories, but the trend is in the fundamentalists' favor...
...They weren't close enough. At the last minute the talks foundered on the same sensitive issue that has persistently stymied negotiators: farm subsidies. Unless France reverses its rigid opposition to European concessions, it appears that a trade pact, if one is ever signed, will come too late to bolster George Bush's election prospects...