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That campaign is likely to become more effective after Wednesday's rescue operation. But while Alberto, a government target himself, admits the FARC has been rattled, he believes it won't collapse. In fact, the unraveling of the group's central authority could end up making local bosses like him stronger. "We can't deny that we have suffered desertions of combatants who haven't understood clearly the reason for our struggle or who have let themselves be influenced by state propaganda," he says. "We have to study the situation so this doesn't keep happening." But he insists that...
...Mississippi riverboats, on Indian land, in Caribbean craps pits and along the length of the Las Vegas Strip. Back in 2005 he joined a group of journalists at a magazine-industry conference in Puerto Rico, offering betting strategy on request. "Enjoying craps opens up a window on a central thread constant in John's life," says John Weaver, McCain's former chief strategist, who followed him to many a casino. "Taking a chance, playing against the odds." Aides say McCain tends to play for a few thousand dollars at a time and avoids taking markers, or loans, from the casinos...
...Hyperinflation, estimated at 1 million to 2 million percent per year, is running rampant in the economically devastated country. Zimbabwe's central bank cannot keep up with the demand for ever larger bills and the paper to print them...
...despotic with paper for its currency violated that code, the spokesman said Giesecke & Devrient did not involve itself in "political" issues. "The important point is that it's not up to us to rely on political considerations in supplying bank note paper," he said. "We only deliver to central banks, not regimes...
...German company, whose slogan is "creating confidence," supplies central banks and governments in nearly 100 countries with high-security paper for bank notes and other financial instruments. Its 2007 sales were $2.46 billion. In its annual report, the company stated that its bank note business with African countries had been especially successful. Giesecke & Devrient said World Bank regulations prohibited it from revealing details of its contracts with Zimbabwe...