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...Under the new Bush plans, Israel would begin peace talks with the Palestinians on the condition that the Palestinian Authority (PA) crack down on terrorism and corruption. This is understandable but unrealistic. The Fatah leadership that has controlled the PA since the 1993 Oslo Accords has been unable or unwilling to curb Palestinian militants. A key reason terrorist acts continue is that many Palestinians simply don't see the benefits of giving up armed struggle. With no end in sight to the growth of Israelis settlements and security barriers in the occupied West Bank, most Palestinians have lost faith...
...typhoon known as the Asian Crisis smashed into Bangkok. Over the next 15 months it swept through Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Seoul. Tens of thousands of people lost their jobs. Others paid a higher price. Hundreds of Indonesian Chinese, accused by rioters of being accomplices to a corrupt regime, lost their lives or were raped in the violence that accompanied the ouster of Indonesia's long-serving autocrat Suharto. Abandoned half-built buildings throughout Asian cities stood as mute reminders not only of the shattered hopes of many an empire builder but also those of ordinary workers...
...Jyoti Thottam's the growing dangers of the China Trade" [July 9]: Have we selectively forgotten that mad-cow-diseased beef and other tainted food products like bagged spinach and peanut butter originated on U.S. soil within the past few years? To pathologize China's industries as corrupt not only reeks of centuries-old Yellow Peril rhetoric but also fails to acknowledge the shortcomings of transnational regulations. We must take responsibility for cleaning up our own backyard when demanding that others take care of theirs...
Over the past few years, Unger has attacked Lula’s government for its recurring corruption scandals. He has gone so far as to describe the administration as “the most corrupt in Brazilian history,” calling for the president’s impeachment in a 2005 editorial in Folha de S. Paulo, a Portuguese-language daily often regarded as Brazil’s newspaper-of-record...
...fact that BAE won CFIUS approval for a major acquisition only days before its disclosure of the Justice Department investigation has certainly raised eyebrows in Washington. "If the Justice Department were to find that BAE had committed a significant violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, it would automatically raise questions about how rigorously the company is safe-guarding classified information, adhering to export controls and meeting its other obligations under U.S. law," says a leading Washington expert in the area, who did not want his name used because of the political sensitivity of the topic...