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...will be welcomed as always, not least by the Western companies that hope to revive the crumbling cobalt and copper mining operations in the region. "Kabila has what he calls a "commission" set up in each town, especially mining towns, that his forces liberate," says Michaels. "He talks to businessmen, to foreign companies, trying to get the mines up and working again. He dickers his own deals." That was the case in Mbuji-Mayi, which the rebels claimed Friday. The next day, after meeting with Kabila, diamond giant De Beers announced that rebels were now guarding its properties...
...over, despite each piece of evidence to the contrary, politicians insist there's no quid pro quo. People can give money to campaigns or parties, the pols say, but the donors get nothing from the government in return. Repeating this fiction obscures the obvious point: why would hardheaded businessmen give hundreds of millions of dollars--$262 million, the Federal Election Commission reported last week--without the prospect of getting something in exchange? But so long as no one shatters the myth, the laws won't be changed...
...contributions show up in FEC reports. So the Democratic National Committee buried the money trail, handing out lists of needy state parties so donors could funnel their money where it would be harder to find. In return, D.N.C. chairman Don Fowler and his staff made sure that assorted Chinese businessmen and now oil financiers got a hearing from the NSC, a photo with the First Lady, or a spot on the President's schedule...
...GORE China trip still on for next week. No way to avoid more pics with Asian businessmen...
Frans Swarttouw, former chairman of the Fokker aircraft company and one of the Netherlands' most colorful businessmen, bid an unusual farewell to his countrymen a few weeks ago. Stricken with throat cancer, the executive, 64, who once characterized an entrepreneur as "a guy who works hard, drinks himself into the ground and chases women," said he had stopped his painful therapy and opted out of a life-saving operation that would have left him an invalid. "I want to be able to draw the line myself," he said on TV. Three days later, he was put to death...