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...World Economic Forum in Davos, talk of London's rise among business leaders was even more intoxicating. "London's openness, to foreign capital, to trade, to immigration," has helped it forge "a tremendous set of advantages," Laura D. Tyson, a former chairman of the White House's Council of Economic Advisers and ex-dean of the London Business School, told time...
...cutouts" to shield the government officials directing them. But throughout the maze investigators repeatedly stumbled across the delicate footprints of the CIA, along with the clumsier presence of Lieut. Colonel Oliver North and an old-boy network of his former colleagues on the staff of the National Security Council...
Conference participants included moderate business, church and political groups, as well as officials of the all-white Natal provincial council and blacks from largely self-governing KwaZulu. The ruling National Party sent observers but did not participate in the sessions. The meetings in which the reforms were drawn up became known as the Indaba, the Zulu word for meeting...
...moment there seemed to be a sigh of relief. The choice of Frank Carlucci, an experienced and capable diplomat and Government official, to head the National Security Council received widespread bipartisan plaudits. And by calling for a special prosecutor to look at all aspects of the affair, the Administration seemed to be signaling that it was eager to avoid any appearance of a cover...
...amphibious-assault war games. The demonstration of an ability to destroy satellites in orbit - belatedly confirmed by Beijing this week - could mean China is ready to up the stakes. "Symbolically, it's quite an important message to send to Taiwan," says Andrew Yang, secretary general of Taiwan's Chinese Council of Advanced Policy Studies and an expert on cross-Straits relations...