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...murder of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop of Grenada prompted the U.S. to send an invasion force of 6,000 troops to the country. Last week a final chapter in the Grenada story was written. A jury in St. George's, the capital, handed down verdicts in the trial of 18 former political and military leaders implicated in the slayings of Bishop and ten others...
...being ranked worst or near worst on Berlin-based Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index. (As for the years the country was not the most corrupt, Bangladeshis joke that officials must have bribed their way out of the bottom spot.) Muzaffer Ahmad, chairman of Transparency International's Bangladesh chapter, says both main parties are guilty of sleaze: "Making money, if you control the government, is an easy thing...
...soul died on Christmas Day, but he is still center stage in a family dispute over where he should be buried. As of mid- January, James Brown's body remained in his air-conditioned South Carolina home. But Brown is in good company; his is just the latest chapter in the sordid history of celebrity burial tugs...
Vietnam marked a notable chapter in this vexed history. Reflecting widespread disillusionment with that failed war, the War Powers Act of 1973 sought to severely limit the President's capacity to send troops abroad without explicit authority from Congress. It passed into law only over Richard Nixon's veto. All subsequent Presidents have refused to recognize its constitutionality. It has not yet been subjected to a full constitutional test before the Supreme Court...
...will make its own choices about this, but I think you are seeing a decline in interest in investing or certainly guaranteeing investment in Iranian oil fields because what happens is that the market and private entities act both on risk and on reputation. And when you're under Chapter 7 you are a financial risk and you're a reputational risk. Now, China may decide to go outside of that, but it's hard to imagine that that is a relationships that is going to be sufficient to supplant the need for investment in capital from the rest...