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...stuck in it." Back in port - with their nets, buoys and lobster traps ruined by oil - their meager catch was rejected by the health authorities. While waves, winds and oil churn off shore, storms also are raging in government and shipping industry offices on several continents, where politicians and businessmen argue about who is to blame for the demise of the 26-year-old Prestige, which was en route from the Latvian port of Ventspils to Singapore with a cargo of 76,972 tons of Russian fuel oil. "The ultimate story will be why, why, why?" says Stewart Wade, spokesman...
...interests of Arafat's Palestinian Authority, looking to uncover malfeasance. When they are done, according to an agreement Arafat signed in August under pressure from U.S. and European officials who threatened to cut aid, the Authority's investments will be given over to a fund administered by independent Palestinian businessmen. That will end the one-man dominion Arafat has enjoyed over Palestinian funds for decades, first as chairman of the P.L.O. and since 1994 as head of the Palestinian Authority...
...Egypt, large numbers of Jewish businessmen were arrested on false charges. Wahed remembers how the government confiscated his family’s business and home. Malaka Bublil, another refugee and now an award winning human rights activist, recalls the expulsion of Libyan Jews, who were forced to leave with no more than $20 each. When she and her family fled on a bus to the airport, the driver tried to set it on fire. When 150,000 Jews were forced to leave Iraq, the Iraqi government seized their bank accounts, and allowed each of them to take only one suitcase...
...political extremist Lyndon LaRouche that Soros is pro-legalization because he bankrolls drug cartels. When talking to Time at the Elks lodge where he introduced the drug czar, Booker awkwardly tried to explain away his statement: "The word cartel was used, not drug. A cartel is a group of businessmen who control price, and that's what we've got here. Three or four guys are controlling the thing." He too stepped out of the role of Nevada police spokesman...
...demonstrations caused people to choose more diverse careers. They became much more aware of the world. Many went into journalism and public service instead of business or medicine. I think our class is sometimes seen as apathetic because we don’t have those core groups of businessmen for fundraising...