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...neighbor Simon Mann, a former British S.A.S. officer, was arrested along with 64 other men in Harare, Zimbabwe. Zimbabwean and South African authorities say the men, who were found aboard a Boeing 727-100, were on their way to topple Nguema's government, and had touched down to collect weapons and ammo. Nineteen other men, including South Africans and Armenians, were arrested in Equatorial Guinea on suspicion of being part of the plot. The self-confessed leader of the Guinean cell, Nick du Toit, on trial in the capital, Malabo, testified last week that he met Thatcher last year...
...ballot, and his campaign has turned in 45,000. But Democrats are challenging the petitions, claiming many of the names are repeated several times, as is the same handwriting, a practice known as round-robin signing. Part of the problem, opponents claim, lies with the people Nader hired to collect signatures: the homeless from Philadelphia's streets. Some of those homeless workers aren't too happy either. They have filed a lawsuit claiming Nader still owes them back pay. The Nader campaign says it paid all the homeless workers except those who turned in flawed signatures, and it insists that...
...embezzlement; the Russian government's demand for up to $6.8 billion in alleged unpaid corporate taxes; its simultaneous freezing of company assets, which makes that tax bill impossible to pay; and, last week, a Moscow court's rejection of Yukos' bid to suspend the government's efforts to collect the first $3.4 billion. "We can't survive," Yukos CFO Bruce Misamore told the Financial Times. But the motives behind all this have remained murky. President Vladimir Putin insists that "the government should not cause Yukos' collapse," and says prosecutors "are acting...
Israeli security officials believe that in going public, the U.S. was relying on a strategy that agencies employ when they lose the intelligence contact, to use the term of art. That happens when sleuths collect enough leads to be pretty sure something's up but not enough to know precisely what's coming or when. Publicizing the information not only gives targeted populations warning but could also cause the attackers--who may think intelligence officials are closer than they really are--to abandon their plans...
...Yukos political melodrama is hard to ignore. The Russian government is seeking to collect $6.8 billion in back taxes from Yukosan effort that has threatened to send the company into bankruptcy. That prospect is highly unlikely, but the mere possibility has spooked traders. That tiny share of the world's oil could loom large if it were disrupted even temporarily, which would surely push prices higher. Nor does the Kremlin appear to have any qualms about roiling the world's oil markets as the battle with Yukos drags on. "The people who are masterminding the assault on Yukos simply...